Baby boomer health dynamics : how are we aging? /
"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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto, Ontario :
University of Toronto Press,
2005.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
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.
