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Baby Boomer Health Dynamics : How Are We Aging?.
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2005.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Baby Boomer Health Dynamics : |b How Are We Aging?. |
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| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Baby Boomer Phenomenon -- Who Are the Baby Boomers? -- Baby Boomers and Population Aging -- The Social Significance of Aging Baby Boomers -- Objectives and Primary Questions Guiding This Book -- 2 Baby Boomers and Population Health -- How Should We Study Baby Boomer Health Dynamics? -- What Are Healthy Lifestyles and Why Should We Study Them? -- Have Healthy Lifestyles Really Improved over Time? -- Have Rates of Chronic Illness Decreased over Time? -- Does Increased Immigration over Time Affect Population Health? -- What Might the Future Health Status of Baby Boomers Look Like? -- How Will Aging Baby Boomers Affect Health Care Utilization? -- Advancements in Healthy Lifestyle Interventions? -- 3 Advancements in Healthy Lifestyle Theories: Towards Transdisciplinarity -- Understanding Healthy Lifestyles -- The Developmental Perspective -- The Social Capital Perspective -- The Transtheoretical Model and Stage Theories -- The Social Ecology of Health Promotion -- Emerging Transdisciplinary Paradigms: The Chinese Boxes -- Beyond the Human Genome Project: Lifestyle Pathways Are Also Important -- 4 Linking Lifestyle Behaviours and Health -- Smoking and Health -- Physical Activity and Health -- BMI, Obesity, and Health -- Alcohol Consumption and Health -- Multiplicity of Healthy Lifestyles -- 5 Data Sources and Data Analyses -- The Selection of Health Surveys -- The 1978/79 Canada Health Survey -- The 1985 and 1990 Health Promotion Surveys -- The National Population Health Surveys -- The 1994/95 NPHS -- The 1998/99 NPHS -- The 2000/01 Community Health Survey -- Selection of Health and Social Variables -- Age of the Baby Boomers at Each Survey Date -- Age, Period, Cohort Analyses -- 6 Changes in Healthy Lifestyles for the Canadian Population. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a How Have Patterns of Smoking Changed? -- Improved Smoking Patterns for Men -- Lower Smoking Patterns for Most Women -- Gender Differences in Smoking: Dying to Be Equal -- How Have Exercise Patterns Changed? -- Optimistic Exercise Patterns for Men -- Positive Exercise Patterns for Women -- Gender Differences in Exercise among the Young and Old -- How Have Patterns of Obesity Changed? -- Obesity Patterns for Men: A Very Poor Report Card -- Obesity Patterns for Women: Another Poor Report Card -- Gender Differences in Obesity: Equality of the Worst Kind -- Average Body Mass Index Patterns: A Population Health Problem -- How Have Patterns of Heavy Drinking Changed? -- Patterns of Heavy Drinking for Men: The Good and the Bad -- Patterns of Heavy Drinking for Women: The Age Factor -- Gender Differences in Heavy Drinking: It's Worse Than You Think -- 7 Population Changes in Health Status and Health Utilization -- Trends in Chronic Illness for Males: A Recent Upturn -- Higher Levels and Increases in Chronic Illness for Females -- Rising Rates of Hypertension for Men -- Some Concerning Trends in Hypertension for Women -- Arthritis for Men: Still an Old-Age Problem -- Higher Prevalence of Arthritis in Women -- A National Concern: Trends in Diabetes for Men -- Slower Upward Trends in Diabetes for Women -- Trends in Doctor Visits for Men -- Trends in Doctor Visits for Women -- 8 Comparative Health Dynamics of Baby Boomers -- Introduction -- What Is the Story for Lifestyle Behaviours? -- Baby Boomers Smoke Less in Midlife Than Earlier Cohorts -- Baby Boomers Are Less Sedentary Than Earlier Cohorts -- Baby Boomers Are More Obese Than Earlier Cohorts -- Baby Boomers Drink Less Than Earlier Cohorts -- Multiple Healthy Lifestyle Behaviours of Baby Boomers -- What Is the Picture for Chronic Illnesses? | |
| 505 | 8 | |a More Chronic Illnesses among Baby Boomers Than among Earlier Cohorts -- Hypertension Higher among Baby Boomers -- Arthritis Also Remains High among Baby Boomers -- Rising Rates of Diabetes among Baby Boomers -- Increasing Health Utilization -- More Doctor Visits among Baby Boomers -- 9 Socio-economic Status, Region, and Foreign-Born Status Variations in Baby Boomer Lifestyles -- The Socio-economic Status Factor -- Knowledge Is Health: Educational Differences in Baby Boomer Lifestyles -- Smoking Declines across Education Groups -- Unhealthy Exercise Trends and Education Level -- Obesity Rates and the Education Factor -- Variable Patterns of Heavy Drinking across Education -- Income Differences in Baby Boomer Lifestyles: Are the Wealthier Healthier? -- The Income Gradient of Smoking -- Unhealthy Exercise and Income -- Increasing Disparity in Obesity Rates by Income Level -- Heavier Drinking among the Rich -- The Regional Factor in Baby Boomer Lifestyles -- Regional Patterns in Smoking -- An East-West Pattern to Unhealthy Exercise -- Regional Differences in Obesity -- Patterns of Heavy Drinking by Region -- Foreign-Born Status and Baby Boomer Lifestyles -- Foreign-Born Have Lower Smoking Rates -- Higher Unhealthy Exercise Levels among Foreign-Born -- Foreign-Born Are Less Obese -- Patterns of Heavy Drinking by Foreign-Born Status -- 10 Summarizing Population and Baby Boomer Health Dynamics -- The Big Picture -- Population and Baby Boomer Smoking: Putting Out the Fire -- Population and Baby Boomer Unhealthy Exercise Levels: Room for Improvement -- Population and Baby Boomer Obesity: A Bulging Bulge -- Population and Baby Boomer Heavy Drinking: Three Cheers -- Population and Baby Boomer Health Status: Ups and Downs -- Socio-economic, Regional, and Foreign-Born Status Factors -- The 'Education Effect' in Baby Boomer Healthy Lifestyles. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The 'Income Effect' in Baby Boomer Healthy Lifestyles -- The 'Regional Effect' in Baby Boomer Healthy Lifestyles -- The 'Foreign-Born Status Effect' in Baby Boomer Healthy Lifestyles -- 11 Explicating Two Lifestyle-Health Paradoxes -- The Exercise-Obesity Paradox -- Are the Patterns for Leisure-Time Physical Activity Similar? -- Is Television the Culprit? -- Is Work-Related Physical Activity the Problem for Adults? -- Fast Food Super-Sized! -- Explaining Food Consumption Patterns -- Physical Activity: We Still Have a Long Way to Go -- Reflections on the Exercise-Obesity Paradox -- The Lifestyle-Health Status Paradox -- 12 Health Policy Relevance, Future Scenarios, and Conclusions -- The Research-Health Policy Interface -- Assessing National Programs Targeting Lifestyles -- Health Promotion and Aging: It's Never Too Late -- So What Is a Healthy Lifestyle? -- Limitations, Research Gaps, and Challenges -- Conclusion and Future Scenarios -- Appendix -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y. | |
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