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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... increased exercise levels and a significant rise in obesity. This paradox raises questions about the eating habits of North Americans, particularly in regard to fast food consumption. Providing a wealth of data and insightful analysis ...
... Increased Immigration over Time Affect Population Health? 22 What Might the Future Health Status of Baby Boomers Look Like? 24 How Will Aging Baby Boomers Affect Health Care Utilization? 25 Advancements in Healthy Lifestyle ...
... Increases in Chronic Illness for Females 97 Rising Rates of Hypertension for Men 99 Some Concerning Trends in ... Increasing Health Utilization 130 More Doctor Visits among Baby Boomers 130 9 Socio-economic Status, Region, and Foreign ...
... Increasing Disparity in Obesity Rates by Income Level 143 Heavier Drinking among the Rich 144 The Regional Factor in Baby Boomer Lifestyles 146 Regional Patterns in Smoking 146 An East-West Pattern to Unhealthy Exercise 147 Regional ...
... increasing exercise levels and a significant rise in obesity over the last few decades. In order to explain these disconnecting patterns, changes in leisure-time physical activity, work-related activity, eating habits, fast food super ...
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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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