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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... lifestyle behaviours, health status indicators, or self-reported health utilization of these persons? In so doing, this volume explicates several key lifestylehealth conundrums that are revealed in the analysis and discussed in xx Preface.
... reported at 35% compared to 38% of adults the same age in the 1970s. The comparative percentages for a healthy blood pressure were 75% and 84%, respectively, and a healthy serum cholesterol level was reported to be 55% and 86% for ...
... reported on the se- quencing of the human genome. Other research groups have been established throughout the world targeting specific groupings of genes. They report approximately 30,000 genes and three billion chemical base pairs that ...
... reported physical activity and exercise patterns, which makes this an even more pressing social issue. There are also contradictory reports pertaining to shifts in activity trends over the last several decades. Some published reports ...
... reported that they were current drinkers (Statistics Canada, 1995b). Rates of heavy drinking are considerably lower, but depend on the definition used. The one used in the analyses in this book to represent heavy drinking is 14 or more ...
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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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