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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... Patterns of Smoking Changed? 67 Improved Smoking Patterns for Men 67 Lower Smoking Patterns for Most Women 70 Gender Differences in Smoking: Dying to Be Equal 73 How Have Exercise Patterns Changed? 73 Optimistic Exercise Patterns for ...
How Are We Aging? Andrew V. Wister. Patterns of Heavy Drinking for Men: The Good and the Bad 89 Patterns of Heavy Drinking for Women: The Age Factor 92 Gender Differences in Heavy Drinking: It's Worse Than You Think 93 7 Population ...
... 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 Have Lower Smoking Rates ...
... patterns and their implications for society. Separate chapters deal explicitly with comparisons of the baby boom generation of today with individuals of similar ages over the previous two-plus decades. In addition, two 10-year age ...
... patterns, changes in leisure-time physical activity, work-related activity, eating habits, fast food super-sizing, and environmental factors influencing healthy lifestyles are investigated. The final sections of the book also shed light ...
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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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