Treating people as cases that are proximate in a behavior space-representing lifestyles-rather than as markers of single variables has a long history in sociology. Yet, because it is difficult to find analytically tractable ways to implement this idea, this approach is rarely used. We take seriously the idea that people are whole packages, and we use household spending to identify groups who oc...

Society's lifestyles, influenced by the evolving preferences of values of subsequent generations, are subject to gradual changes. This variation in lifestyles requires a reflection on the patterns of physical culture and values amongst the youth, adults and the elderly. Patterns of physical culture shaped in the European tradition are also present in the contemporary lifestyles of all generatio...

BACKGROUND Research on the co-occurrence of unhealthy lifestyles has tended to focus mainly upon the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of individuals. This study investigated the relevance of neighborhood socioeconomic circumstance for multiple unhealthy lifestyles. METHOD An unhealthy lifestyle index was constructed for 206,457 participants in the 45 and Up Study (2006-2009) by s...

Correlations in family size across generations could have a major influence on human population size in the future. Empirical studies have shown that the associations between the fertility of parents and the fertility of children are substantial and growing over time. Despite their potential long-term consequences, intergenerational fertility correlations have largely been ignored by researcher...

Lifestyles can be used to explain existent and to anticipate future consumer behavior, both in a geographical and a temporal context. Basing market segmentations on consumer lifestyles enables the development of purposeful advertising strategies and the design of new products meeting future demands. The present paper introduces a new growing self-organizing neural network which identifies lifes...

Margaret E.A. Black, RN, PhD, is an associate professor in the School of Nursing at McMaster University and a public health consultant at the Healthy Lifestyles and Youth Branch of the City of Hamilton Public Health Services, Angela Frisina, RN, MHSc, is a public health nurse at the Healthy Lifestyles and Youth Branch of the City of Hamilton Public Health Services, Trisha Hack, RN, BScN, is a p...