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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... individuals who are healthier and wealthier than prior generations, whereas others maintain that they have a 'poor health report card' because they are prone to obesity and chronic illness, and, therefore, will break the public purse ...
... individuals (i.e., baby boomers) over their lifetime and adds the notion of human agency – the proactive role that the individual plays in shaping social structure. Additionally, the cohort approach studies characteristics of two or ...
... individual birth cohorts (each typically viewed as an individual year of birth unless grouped into a larger cohort); (2) ... individuals (Morgan, 1998a). Thus, while cohorts are distinguishable in terms of year of birth, generations are ...
... individuals of a particular birth cohort (age effects) – those who share social experiences at the same point in life as their age peers (cohort effects) – are exposed to particular historical events (period effects) will define a ...
... individuals may have immigrated to Canada and are not baby boomers in a cultural sense. Thus, we will also need to examine educational, income, regional, and, in particular, foreign-born status elements of baby boomer health dynamics ...
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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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