Sleep, Health and Society: From Aetiology to Public Health
Francesco P. Cappuccio, Michelle A. Miller, and Steven W. Lockley
Abstract
Sleep disturbances and sleep deprivation are common in modern society. Increasingly, populations have been subjected to a steady constant decline in the number of hours devoted to sleep, due to changes in a variety of environmental and social conditions. Through the application of epidemiological methods of investigation, sleep deprivation has been shown to be associated with a variety of chronic conditions and health outcomes, detectable across the entire lifespan, from childhood to adulthood to older age. Sleep medicine is rapidly being recognized as a growing area of clinical medicine, affe ... More
Sleep disturbances and sleep deprivation are common in modern society. Increasingly, populations have been subjected to a steady constant decline in the number of hours devoted to sleep, due to changes in a variety of environmental and social conditions. Through the application of epidemiological methods of investigation, sleep deprivation has been shown to be associated with a variety of chronic conditions and health outcomes, detectable across the entire lifespan, from childhood to adulthood to older age. Sleep medicine is rapidly being recognized as a growing area of clinical medicine, affecting wide-ranging specialists including respiratory physicians, neurologists, cardiologists, and psychiatrists. However, it also has huge implications in the fields of epidemiology, public health, and preventive medicine. This book summarizes the epidemiological evidence linking sleep deprivation and disruption to several chronic conditions, and explores the public health implications with the view to developing preventive strategies.
Keywords:
sleep disturbance,
sleep deprivation,
epidemiology,
public health,
preventive medicine
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199566594 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2011 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199566594.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Francesco P. Cappuccio, Editor
Cephalon Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine & Epidemiology and Consultant Physician, University of Warwick, Warwick Medical School & University Hospital, Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust, UK
Michelle A. Miller, Editor
Associate Professor (Reader) of Biochemical Medicine, University of Warwick, Warwick Medical School and Honorary Senior Research Associate, Department of Epidemiology, University College London, UK
Steven W. Lockley, Editor
Associate Neuroscientist, Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, USA; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA; Honorary Associate Professor in Sleep Medicine, Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Warwick Medical School and UK Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, Australia
More
Less
