Baby boomer health dynamics
Subtitle: how are we aging?
By: Andrew V. Wister.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Baby boom generation -- Health and hygiene -- Canada.; Middle aged persons -- Health and hygiene -- Canada.; Health status indicators -- Canada.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: The baby boomer phenomenon; title: Baby boomers and population health; title: Advancements in healthy lifestyle theories : towards transdisciplinarity; title: Linking lifestyle behaviours and health; title: Data sources and data analyses; title: Changes in healthy lifestyles for the Canadian population; title: Population changes in health status and health utilization; title: Comparative health dynamics of baby boomers; title: Socio-economic status, region, and foreign-born status variations in baby boomer lifestyles; title: Summarizing population and baby boomer health dynamics; title: Explicating two lifestyle-health paradoxes; title: Health policy relevance, future scenarios, and conclusions.