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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... person is no longer in the program – has been considerably less successful. For example, many weight loss and smoking ... mid-life persons of the same age a generation Baby Boomers and Population Health 19 Have Healthy Lifestyles Really ...
How Are We Aging? Andrew V. Wister. well as mid-life persons of the same age a generation ago (e.g., in the 1970s) in terms of lifestyles and health. In its report, 'Wake Up Call to Canadian Baby Boomers,' the Heart and Stroke Foundation ...
... midlife persons (aged 45–64) as well as among older persons (65+), which has helped to lower the prevalence of chronic conditions over the last several decades – an improvement due to the efforts of the 'new public health.' Statistics ...
... individuals (Day, 2001). Additionally, activity patterns of older adults, for instance, are correlated with exercise history during midlife (Lalive d'Epinay and Bickel, 2003). Of course, special attention needs to be invested in children ...
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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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