Baby Boomer Health Dynamics : How Are We Aging? /

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"In Baby Boomer Health Dynamics, Andrew Wister argues that the health of a population is affected by experiences of cohorts as they form unique health and illness trajectories connected to their size, composition, earlier life experiences, and exposure to historical events. A cohort analysis of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wister, Andrew
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Middle aged persons > Health and hygiene.
Health status indicators.
Health behavior > Age factors.
Baby boom generation > Health and hygiene.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
middle age (life stage)
Âge moyen.
Style de vie.
Politique sanitaire.
Habitudes sanitaires.
Indicateurs de sante > Canada.
Habitudes sanitaires > Facteurs lies à l'âge > Canada.
Personnes d'âge moyen > Sante et hygiene > Canada.
Generation du baby-boom > Sante et hygiene > Canada.
Middle Aged
Life Style
Health Status Indicators
Health Policy
Health Behavior
Health Status
Middle age.
Lifestyles.
Medical policy.
Health behavior.
Health status indicators > Canada.
Health behavior > Age factors > Canada.
Middle-aged persons > Health and hygiene > Canada.
Baby boom generation > Health and hygiene > Canada.
Canada.
Canada
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The baby boomer phenomenon
  • Baby boomers and population health
  • Advancements in healthy lifestyle theories: towards transdisciplinarity
  • Linking lifestyle behaviours and health
  • Data sources and data analyses
  • Changes in healthy lifestyles for the Canadian population
  • Population changes in health status and health utilization
  • Comparative health dynamics of baby boomers
  • Socio-economic status, region, and foreign-born status variations in baby boomer lifestyles
  • Summarizing population and baby boomer health dynamics
  • Explicating two lifestyle-health paradoxes
  • Health policy relevance, future scenarios, and conclusions.

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