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

ABOUT THIS BOOK

• Each chapter is accompanied by a summary box with population and public health perspectives
• Written by leading experts in the field providing up-to-date information on a rapidly growing subject

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 health implications with the view to developing preventive strategies. It will appeal to both preventive medicine specialists, sleep researchers, and clinicians involved in the various specialities that impact upon this growing field.

About the series
By looking at public health issues from a unique condition-based approach, the innovative From Aetiology to Public Health series examines top public health issues from aetiology through to public health and prevention.

Future titles in the series
Chronic Pain Epidemiology, edited by P Croft, F Blyth, and D van der Windt
Obesity Epidemiology, edited by D Crawford, R Jeffrey, K Ball, and J Brug
Respiratory Epidemiology, edited by J Jaakkola, M Jaakkola, G Viegi, and M Eisner

Readership: Epidemiologists and public health professionals, including policy makers, clinicians and researchers involved in respiratory medicine, metabolic medicine, cardiology, ENT, neurology, and psychiatry. Occupational health groups will also find this book of interest

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1: F. P. Cappuccio, M. A. Miller, S. W. Lockley: Sleep, health and society: the contribution of epidemiology
2: S. W. Lockley: Principles of sleep physiology
3: N. S. Marshall, S. Stranges: Sleep deprivation and sleep disruption: risk factors and risk markers
4: J. E. Ferrie, M. Kivimäki, M. Shipley: Sleep and mortality
5: F. P. Cappuccio, M. A. Miller: The epidemiology of sleep and cardiovascular risk and disease
6: J. Broussard, K. L. Knutson: Sleep and metabolic risk and disease
7: A. Xie, R. Kakkar, M. C. Teodorescu, L. Herpel, V. Krishnan, M. Teodorescu: Sleep and respiratory disease
8: S. Weich: The epidemiology of sleep and depression
9: D. A. Cohen, A. Roy: Sleep and neurological disorders
10: D. Gozal, K. Spruyt: Sleep in children
11: M. A. Miller, F. P. Cappuccio: Sleep, inflammation and disease
12: M. A. Miller: The genetics of sleep
13: S. Williams, R. Meadows, S. Arber: The sociology of sleep
14: G. Stores: Psychosocial and medical consequences of misinterpreting sleep disturbance
15: J. Axelsson: Sleep and shift work
16: T. Åkerstedt: Sleepiness, alertness and performance
17: C. P. Landrigan: Effect of lack of sleep on medical errors
18: F. P. Cappuccio, M. A. Miller: European working time directive and medical errors
19: E. Peile: A commentary on sleep education
20: C. B. Jones, C. J. Lee, S. Rajaratnam: Sleep, law and policy
21: C. Czeisler: Ethical considerations for the scheduling of work in continuous operations: physicians in training as a case study

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Edited by Francesco P. Cappuccio, 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, Associate Professor (Reader) of Biochemical Medicine, University of Warwick, Warwick Medical School and Honorary Senior Research Associate, Department of Epidemiology, University College London, UK, and Steven W. Lockley, 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