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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... factors as socioeconomic status, regional differences, and foreign-born status on lifestyle behaviours. Focusing on four health behaviours that have been proven to be major risk factors for disease – smoking, unhealthy exercise, obesity ...
... risk factors for disease: smoking, unhealthy exercise, obesity, and heavy drinking. The recent declaration that we are experiencing an obesity crisis, and, moreover, that obesity is the 'new tobacco,' emphasize the need for elucidating ...
... risk factors, major chronic illnesses, and doctor visits. Intra- and inter-comparisons of all available five-year age-sex cohorts spanning the lifecycle of Canadians are conducted in order to identify past, current, and future patterns ...
... risk factors (e.g., smoking, exercise, and diet) and the prevalence and incidence of chronic illnesses that occur as people age are constantly in flux, and they also require attention in our analyses of health status and health care ...
... factors associated with poverty, age-related patterns, gender differences, etc.); differences in education, knowledge, and exposure to risk factors linked to the health of Canadians (e.g., exercise, smoking, hypertension, cholesterol ...
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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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