Baby Boomer Health Dynamics: How Are We Aging?University of Toronto Press, 15/12/2005 - 300 من الصفحات Are the baby boomers in Canada more or less healthy than previous generations? What are the implications of this for the national health care system? Baby Boomer Health Dynamic responds to the growing interest in the generation that makes up over one-third of the Canadian population – the largest segment of society – with the leading edge reaching their sixty-fifth birthday in 2011 and eighty-five by 2031. Focusing on four health behaviours that have been proven to be major risk factors for disease: smoking, unhealthy exercise, obesity, and heavy drinking – Andrew V. Wister researches the long-term implications of several key lifestyle-health conundrums, most notably the paradoxical relationship in the concurrent trends over the last two decades of increased exercise levels and a significant rise in obesity. This invariably leads to questions about the eating habits of North Americans, and in particular, the quantity and quality of fast-food and convenience-food consumption. Recent public declarations by a number of health organizations and institutes that we are experiencing an obesity crisis, and moreover, that obesity is the 'new tobacco' makes Baby Boomer Health Dynamics both timely and topical. |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 60
... example, what are the most important health trajectories of the baby boom generation? Furthermore, how will they influence future patterns of health status and health utilization across major social categories, such as gender, education ...
... example, although we assume people of a particular age are members of the baby boom generation, in fact, a significant proportion of these individuals may have immigrated to Canada and are not baby boomers in a cultural sense. Thus, we ...
... example, it would have to be assumed that social norms, values, and personal preferences underlying behaviour remain unchanged over the time period being projected. Yet, a plethora of sociological and social demographic studies have ...
... example, there is a plethora of research that has established the significance of social determinants of both health behaviours and health status (i.e., factors associated with poverty, age-related patterns, gender differences, etc ...
... behaviours of persons belonging to different age cohorts – for example, those at the front end of the baby boom compared to those at the end? 2 Baby Boomers and Population Health How Should We Study 12 Baby Boomer Health Dynamics.
المحتوى
3 | |
13 | |
39 | |
51 | |
Changes in Healthy Lifestyles for the Canadian Population | 66 |
A Population Health Problem | 86 |
Population Changes in Health Status and Health Utilization | 95 |
Comparative Health Dynamics of Baby Boomers | 119 |
Socioeconomic Status Region and ForeignBorn Status | 132 |
Summarizing Population and Baby Boomer Health Dynamics | 155 |
Explicating Two LifestyleHealth Paradoxes | 165 |
Health Policy Relevance Future Scenarios and Conclusions | 182 |
Appendix | 201 |
References | 225 |
Index | 241 |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
Baby Boomer Health Dynamics: How are We Aging? <span dir=ltr>Andrew Wister</span> لا تتوفر معاينة - 2005 |