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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... trends, the author provides comparisons of the baby boom generation with the previous generation, and looks at the influence of such factors as socioeconomic status, regional differences, and foreign-born status on lifestyle behaviours ...
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How Are We Aging? Andrew V. Wister. Unhealthy Exercise Trends and Education Level 137 Obesity Rates and the Education Factor 138 Variable Patterns of Heavy Drinking across Education 139 Income Differences in Baby Boomer Lifestyles: Are ...
... trends is also assessed. The theoretical basis for research into the population health dynamics of baby boomers draws from the Social Change Model developed by Riley (1993). Based on this framework, the health of a population can be ...
... trends of increasing exercise levels and a significant rise in obesity over the last few decades. In order to explain these disconnecting patterns, changes in leisure-time physical activity, work-related activity, eating habits, fast ...
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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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