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November 2006 Volume 10 Number 5
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Generation X visits to the GP
Christopher Harrison, Jan Charles
The term Generation X is used regularly in sociology, marketing and popular culture and refers to the generation that came after the post-World War II baby boomers. For this study, Generation X refers to people born between 1965 and 1980.
The BEACH year runs from April to March. According to our definition, Generation X patients were 26–41 years old in 2005–2006. In the 2005–2006 BEACH year, there were 26 098 encounters with Generation X patients, accounting for 26% of all BEACH encounters. Generation X males accounted for significantly fewer encounters (36%) than non-Generation X males (42%). This reflects previous work showing that young males are less likely to see their GP.
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