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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... Social Significance of Aging Baby Boomers 6 Objectives and Primary Questions Guiding This Book 10 2 Baby Boomers and ... Social Capital Perspective 32 The Transtheoretical Model and Stage Theories 33 The Social Ecology of Health ...
... Social Variables 58 Age of the Baby Boomers at Each Survey Date 58 Age, Period, Cohort Analyses 60 6 Changes in Healthy Lifestyles for the Canadian Population 66 How Have Patterns of Smoking Changed? 67 Improved Smoking Patterns for Men ...
... Social Change Model developed by Riley (1993). Based on this framework, the health of a population can be understood as a combination of cohorts with unique health and illness trajectories connected to their size, composition, earlier ...
... social experiences at the same point in life as their age peers (cohort effects) – are exposed to particular historical events (period effects) will define a generation. In North America the large birth cohorts of the baby boom ...
... social, and demographic markers. For example, although we assume people of a particular age are members of the baby boom generation, in fact, a significant proportion of these individuals may have immigrated to Canada and are not baby ...
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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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