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

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 se...

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