The Social Epidemiology of Sleep

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AN ESSENTIAL NEW RESOURCE ON A FUNDAMENTAL DETERMINANT OF HEALTH Sleep, along with the sleep-related behaviors that impact sleep quality, have emerged as significant determinants of health and well-being across populations. An emerging body of research has confirmed that sleep is strongly socially patterned, following trends along lines of socioeconomic status, race, immigration status, age, work, and geography. The Social Epidemiology of Sleep serves as both an introduction to sleep epidemiology and a synthesis of the most important and exciting research to date, including: · An introduction to sleep epidemiology, including methods of assessment and their validity, the descriptive epidemiology of sleep patterns and disorders, associations with health, and basic biology · What we know about the variation of sleep patterns and disorders across populations, including consideration of sleep across the lifespan and within special populations · Major social determinants of sleep (including socioeconomic status, immigration status, neighborhood contexts, and others) based on the accumulated research With editors from both population science and medicine, combined with contributions from psychology, sociology, demography, geography, social epidemiology, and medicine, this text codifies a new field at the intersection of how we sleep and the social and behavioral factors that influence it. Cover The Social Epidemiology of Sleep Copyright Contents About the Editors Contributors Part I An Introduction to Sleep Epidemiology 1. Sleep Epidemiology: A Social Perspective 2 Sleep Epidemiology: An Introduction Part II Sleep Health Over the Life Course and Among Special Populations 3. Sleep in Pregnancy 4. Sleep Among Children 5. Sleep Among Working Adults 6. Sleep Among Older Adults 7. Race as a Social Determinant of Sleep Health 8. Sleep Health Among Sexual and Gender Minorities Part III Social Determinants of Sleep 9. Sleep Among Immigrants: Does Acculturation Matter? 10. Socioeconomic Status and Sleep 11. Exposure to Discrimination and Sleep 12. Family Relationships in the Context of Sleep 13. Bidirectional Relationships Between Work and Sleep 14. Housing Conditions as Environmental and Social Determinants of Sleep Health 15. Connecting Neighborhoods and Sleep Health Glossary Index