Part I. An introduction to sleep epidemiology -- Sleep epidemiology: a social perspective / Dustin T. Duncan, Ichiro Kawachi, and Susan Redline -- Sleep e5pidemiology: an introduction / Susan Redline, Brian Redline, and Peter James -- Part II. Sleep health over the life course and among special populations -- Sleep in pregnancy / Louise M. O'Brien and Galit L. Dunietz -- Sleep among children / Judith Owens and Monica Ordway -- Sleep among working adults / Faith S. Luyster, Lynn M. Baniak, Eileen R. Chasens, Christine A. Feeley, Christopher C. Imes, and Jonna L. Morris -- Sleep among older adults / Katie L. Stone and Vicki Li -- Race as a social determinant of sleep health / Rebecca Robbins, Azizi Seixas, Natasha Williams, Byoungjun Kim, Judite Blanc, Joāo Nunes, and Girardin Jean-Louis -- Sleep health among sexual and gender minorities / Brett M. Millar, William C. Goedel, and Dustin T. Duncan -- Sleep among immigrants: does acculturation matter? / Sunmin Lee, Natalie Slopen, and Seo Young Hong -- Part III. Social determinants of sleep -- Socioeconomic status and sleep / Michael A. Grandner -- Exposure to discrimination and sleep / Tené T. Lewis and Izraelle I. McKinnon -- Family relationships in the context of sleep / Eunjin Lee Tracy and Wendy M. Troxel -- Bidirectional relationships between work and sleep / Chandra L. Jackson, Soomi Lee, Tori L. Crain, and Orfeu M. Buxton -- Housing conditions as environmental and social determinants of sleep health / Chandra L. Jackson -- Connecting neighborhoods and sleep health / Dayna A. Johnson, Yazan A. Al-Ajlouni, and Dustin T. Duncan -- Glossary.
Summary:
Sleep, along with the sleep-related behaviours that impact sleep quality, have emerged as one of the major determinants of health and well-being (alongside good diet, regular exercise, and not smoking). In turn research is beginning to identify that sleep is strongly socially patterned--by socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, immigrant status, stage of the life course, work experiences, stress, and neighbourhood contexts. Yet no textbook currently exists that brings together the accumulated evidence on the social epidemiology of sleep. This text is targeted toward (a) social epidemiologists who wish to study sleep as a health outcome, (b) sleep epidemiologists who want to learn about the social determinants of sleep, and (c) other scholars working in the intersection between sleep health, social epidemiology, and health disparities.
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