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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... 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 Changes in ... Unhealthy Exercise Trends and Education Level 137 Obesity Rates and Contents vii.
... Unhealthy Exercise and Income 142 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 ...
... level. For example, it is well known that exercise levels decline as an ... rates of disability of successive cohorts of elderly people (Crimmins and Saito ... unhealthy patterns of behaviour – is even more difficult to explain because ...
... unhealthy lifestyles, and they emphasize the urgency for further research. Have Rates of Chronic Illness Decreased over Time? In his seminal work, Fries (1983) argued that, if adult life expectancy is relatively constant, and if the ...
... Unhealthy weight tends to peek in the early 50s and decrease as persons move into their elder years. In addition, higher obesity prevalence can be observed for men and lower SES (education, income, and occupation) persons, whereas lower ...
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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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