Sleep, health and society: from aetiology to public health

Sleep medicine is a growing field crossing a number of clinical disciplines. This book provides a preventive medicine approach to the subject, looking at the epidemiological evidence that sleep deprivation and disturbance is linked to ill health, and exploring the public health implications with a view to developing preventive strategies. INDICE: 1: F. P. Cappuccio, M. A. Miller, S. W. Lockley: Sleep, health and society: the contribution of epidemiology; 2: S. W. Lockley: Principles ofsleep physiology; 3: N. S. Marshall, S. Stranges: Sleep deprivation and sleepdisruption: 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: Sleepand 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 sociologyof 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

• ISBN: 978-0-19-956659-4
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 496
• Fecha Publicación: 23/09/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés