Baby Boomer Health Dynamics : : How Are We Aging? / / Andrew Wister.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Wister, Andrew,
• Author: Wister, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Baby Boomer Phenomenon -- 2. Baby Boomers and Population Health -- 3. Advancements in Healthy Lifestyle Theories: Towards Transdisciplinarity -- 4. Linking Lifestyle Behaviours and Health -- 5. Data Sources and Data Analyses -- 6. Changes in Healthy Lifestyles for the Canadian Population -- 7. Population Changes in Health Status and Health Utilization -- 8. Comparative Health Dynamics of Baby Boomers -- 9. Socio-economic Status, Region, and Foreign-Born Status Variations in Baby Boomer Lifestyles -- 10. Summarizing Population and Baby Boomer Health Dynamics -- 11. Explicating Two Lifestyle-Health Paradoxes -- 12. Health Policy Relevance, Future Scenarios, and Conclusions -- Appendix -- References -- Index