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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... Income Differences in Baby Boomer Lifestyles: Are the Wealthier Healthier? 140 The Income Gradient of Smoking 141 ... Effect' in Baby Boomer Healthy Lifestyles 162 The 'Income Effect' in Baby Boomer Healthy Lifestyles 162 The 'Regional ...
... income, and education are associated with patterns of health status and health utilization (for review, see Raphael ... effect of minority status, socio-economic status, and other factors such as age and gender on health and well-being ...
... effects of age (Chen, Ng, and Wilkins, 1996; Chen, Wilkins and Ng, 1996; Federal ... effect' is moderate, typically resulting in a relative risk, around 1.5 to 2 ... income do not explain away the pattern of decreasing health status among ...
... effects. Indeed, there is an enormous body of literature that confirms ... effect of second-hand smoke on a host of chronic conditions, such as asthma ... income, especially women with these characteristics (Millar, 1996). Smokers ...
... effects on health (Andrews, 1988; Eckardt, Harford, Koelber, Parker, Rosenthal et al ... income persons; and persons of vulnerable populations, such as Aboriginals ... effect for heavy drinking among older persons (Ruchlin, 1997). Finally ...
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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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