Sleep, Health and Society: From Aetiology to Public Health (Epidemiology: From Aetiology to Public Health)

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2010-11-19
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0199566593
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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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 recognised 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 summarises for the first time the epidemiological evidence linking sleep deprivation and disruption to several chronic conditions, and explores the public Download Sleep, Health and Society: From Aetiology to Public Health (Epidemiology for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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