12. Health Policy Relevance, Future Scenarios, and Conclusions

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Tables and Figures xi
4. Preface xix
5. Acknowledgments xxiii
6. 1. The Baby Boomer Phenomenon 1
7. 2. Baby Boomers and Population Health 13
8. 3. Advancements in Healthy Lifestyle Theories: Towards Transdisciplinarity 30
9. 4. Linking Lifestyle Behaviours and Health 39
10. 5. Data Sources and Data Analyses 51
11. 6. Changes in Healthy Lifestyles for the Canadian Population 66
12. 7. Population Changes in Health Status and Health Utilization 95
13. 8. Comparative Health Dynamics of Baby Boomers 119
14. 9. Socio-economic Status, Region, and Foreign-Born Status Variations in Baby Boomer Lifestyles 132
15. 10. Summarizing Population and Baby Boomer Health Dynamics 155
16. 11. Explicating Two Lifestyle-Health Paradoxes 165
17. 12. Health Policy Relevance, Future Scenarios, and Conclusions 182
18. Appendix 201
19. References 225
20. Index 241