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. |
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... Health Care Utilization? 25 Advancements in Healthy Lifestyle Interventions? 27 3 Advancements in Healthy Lifestyle Theories: Towards Transdisciplinarity 30 Understanding Healthy Lifestyles 30 The Developmental Perspective 31 The Social ...
... Lifestyle Pathways Are Also Important 37 4 Linking Lifestyle Behaviours and Health 39 Smoking and Health 39 Physical Activity and Health 41 BMI, Obesity, and Health 44 Alcohol Consumption and Health 47 Multiplicity of Healthy Lifestyles ...
... Health Status and Health Utilization 95 Trends in Chronic Illness for Males: A Recent ... Healthy Lifestyle Behaviours of Baby Boomers 125 What Is the Picture for ... Lifestyles 132 The Socio-economic Status Factor 132 Knowledge Is Health ...
... Lifestyles 146 Regional Patterns in Smoking 146 An East-West Pattern to Unhealthy Exercise 147 Regional Differences in Obesity 149 Patterns of Heavy Drinking by Region 149 Foreign-Born Status and Baby Boomer Lifestyles 150 Foreign-Born ...
... Lifestyle-Health Status Paradox 178 12 Health Policy Relevance, Future Scenarios, and Conclusions 182 The Research-Health Policy Interface 182 Assessing National Programs Targeting Lifestyles 185 Health Promotion and Aging: It's Never ...
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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 |
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