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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... Rates of Hypertension for Men 99 Some Concerning Trends in Hypertension for Women 103 Arthritis for Men: Still an Old-Age Problem 104 Higher Prevalence of Arthritis in Women 104 A National Concern: Trends in Diabetes for Men 108 Slower ...
... Rates of Chronic Illness Decreased over Time? In his seminal work, Fries ... prevalence of chronic diseases – those illnesses that tend to be treatable ... rates. Most people will face chronic illness some time in their life. Prevalence ...
... prevalence rates for arthritis/rheumatism, hypertension, heart disease, and bronchitis/emphysema (Statistics Canada, 1999b). But, striking and statistically significant increases have occurred in prevalence rates for diabetes, asthma ...
... prevalence rates have decreased in both the United States and Canada since that time, they are still considered to be high, and smoking among young adults, especially young women, has actually been on the rise. Additionally, if we ...
... costs of smoking in Canada range between $7.8 and $11.1 billion annually ... prevalence of smoking has declined over the last few decades, the smallest ... rates of smoking in the population is undoubtedly one 40 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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