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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... relative size and placement of the baby boomers in the population structure. Baby boomers comprise approximately one-third of the population concentrated in a 20-year span, defined here as persons born between 1946 and 1965, and ...
... relative size) that set them apart from other generations. It is also understood that generations need to be studied in terms of age, cohort, and historical period, as well as The Baby Boomer Phenomenon Who Are the Baby Boomers?
... relative size, characteristics, and behaviour of the baby boomers, in relation to other generations, will dictate most major consumer trends, including patterns of education enrolment and health care utilization, with the costs ...
... relative success for a significant number of participants while they are in the program, but often participants return to preprogram levels once it ends. Moreover, most interventions have not filtered throughout enough segments of ...
... relative risk, around 1.5 to 2. Thus, while the health of immigrants is better than average upon entry to this country, these differences are in the moderate range in terms of strength, and gradually disappear and become non-significant ...
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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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