The Social Epidemiology of Sleep

Edited by Dustin T. Duncan, Ichiro Kawachi, and Susan Redline

A critical introduction to sleep epidemiology and sleep as a determinant of health, written for student and professionals across public health, epidemiology, medicine, demography, and sociology
Synthesizes current literature on the root causes of poor sleep health, covering a range of sleep symptoms, sleep patterns and disorders across populations
Offers descriptions of social theories and principles that students in applied disciplines such as public health are not typically exposed to
Features an up-to-date survey of social epidemiology research on sleep being conducted in the fields of psychology, epidemiology, sociology, geography, and behavioral science
Presents readers with novel ways to apply social science insights to address the public health problem of poor sleep health and a framework for understanding sleep health disparities

The Social Epidemiology of Sleep

Edited by Dustin T. Duncan, Ichiro Kawachi, and Susan Redline

Description

AN ESSENTIAL NEW RESOURCE ON A FUNDAMENTAL DETERMINANT OF HEALTH

Sleep, along with the sleep-related behaviors that impact sleep quality, have emerged as significant determinants of health and well-being across populations. An emerging body of research has confirmed that sleep is strongly socially patterned, following trends along lines of socioeconomic status, race, immigration status, age, work, and geography.

The Social Epidemiology of Sleep serves as both an introduction to sleep epidemiology and a synthesis of the most important and exciting research to date, including:

· An introduction to sleep epidemiology, including methods of assessment and their validity, the descriptive epidemiology of sleep patterns and disorders, associations with health, and basic biology
· What we know about the variation of sleep patterns and disorders across populations, including consideration of sleep across the lifespan and within special populations
· Major social determinants of sleep (including socioeconomic status, immigration status, neighborhood contexts, and others) based on the accumulated research

With editors from both population science and medicine, combined with contributions from psychology, sociology, demography, geography, social epidemiology, and medicine, this text codifies a new field at the intersection of how we sleep and the social and behavioral factors that influence it.

The Social Epidemiology of Sleep

Edited by Dustin T. Duncan, Ichiro Kawachi, and Susan Redline

Part I: An Introduction to Sleep Epidemiology
1. Sleep Epidemiology: A Social Perspective
Dustin T. Duncan, Ichiro Kawachi, and Susan Redline
2. Sleep Epidemiology: An Introduction
Susan Redline, Brian Redline, and Peter James
Part II: Sleep Health over the Life Course and among Special Populations
3. Sleep In Pregnancy
Louise M. O'Brien and Galit L. Dunietz

4. Sleep Among Children
Judith Owens and Monica Ordway
5. Sleep Among Working Adults
Faith S. Luyster, Lynn M. Baniak, Eileen R. Chasens, Christine A. Feeley, Christopher C. Imes, and Jonna L. Morris
6. Sleep Among Older Adults
Katie Stone and Vicki Li
7. Race as a Social Determinant of Sleep Health
Rebecca Robins, Azizi Seixas, Natasha Williams, Byoungjun Kim, Judite Blanc, João Nunes and Girardin Jean-Louis
8. Sleep Health Among Sexual and Gender Minorities
Brett Millar, William C. Goedel, and Dustin T. Duncan
9. Sleep Among Immigrants: Does Acculturation Matter?
Sunmin Lee, Natalie Slopen and Seo Young Hong
Part III: Social Determinants of Sleep
10. Socioeconomic Status and Sleep
Michael Grandner
11. Exposure to Discrimination and Sleep
Tene Lewis and Izraelle I. McKinnon
12. Family Factors and Sleep
Eunjin Lee Tracy and Wendy Troxel
13. Bidirectional Relationships between Work and Sleep
Chandra Jackson, Soomi Lee, Tori L. Crain, and Orfeu M. Buxton
14. Housing Conditions as Environmental and Social Determinants of Sleep Health
Chandra Jackson
15. Neighborhoods and Sleep
Dayna Johnson, Yazan A. Aljouni, and Dustin T. Duncan
Glossary
Index

The Social Epidemiology of Sleep

Edited by Dustin T. Duncan, Ichiro Kawachi, and Susan Redline

Author Information

Edited by Dustin T. Duncan, Associate Professor, Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, Edited by Ichiro Kawachi, John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Edited by Susan Redline, Peter C. Farrell Professor of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School

DUSTIN T. DUNCAN, ScD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health at the New York University School of Medicine, where he directs the Spatial Epidemiology Lab. Duncan is a social and spatial epidemiologist, studying how social factors, including neighborhood characteristics, influence sexual health, sleep health, and minority health. He completed his doctorate and the Alonzo Smythe Yerby Postdoctoral Fellowship, both in social epidemiology, at Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health. ICHIRO KAWACHI, MBChB, PhD, is the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he has taught since 1992. He is coeditor of several books, including Neighborhoods and Health, Behavioral Economics and Public Health, Social Epidemiology, and the Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice, all published by Oxford University Press. SUSAN REDLINE, MD, MPH, is the Peter C. Farrell

Professor of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Senior Physician in the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Her research is focused on epidemiological studies to elucidate the etiologies of sleep disorders, including the role of genetic and early life developmental factors, and epidemiological and clinical trials aimed at understanding the health outcomes of sleep disorders and the role of sleep interventions in improving health.

Contributors:

Yazan A. Al-Ajlouni
New York University (NYU) School of Medicine
Department of Population Health
NYU Spatial Epidemiology Lab
New York, NY

Lynn M. Baniak, PhD, RN
University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing

Judite Blanc, PhD

Orfeu M. Buxton, PhD
Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Sleep Health Institute, Departments of Medicine and Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Department of Biobehavioral Health, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA

Eileen R. Chasens, PhD, RN
University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing
Pittsburgh, PA

Tori L. Crain, PhD
Psychology Department
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO

Galit L. Dunietz, MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor, Division of Sleep Medicine
Department of Neurology
Michigan Medicine
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Christine A. Feeley, PhD, RN
University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing
Pittsburgh, PA

William C. Goedel, BA
Brown University School of Public Health
Department of Epidemiology
Providence, RI

Michael A. Grandner, PhD, MTR
Sleep and Health Research Program
Department of Psychiatry
University of Arizona College of Medicine

Seo Young Hong, MPH

Christopher C. Imes, PhD, RN
University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing
Pittsburgh, PA

Chandra L. Jackson, PhD, MS
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC
Intramural Program, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National
Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA

Peter James, ScD
Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse (CoRAL)

Girardin Jean-Louis, PhD
Department of Population Health
NYU Langone Health
New York, NY

Dayna A. Johnson, PhD, MPH, MS, MSW
Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
Department of Epidemiology
Atlanta, GA

Byoungjun Kim, ML
Department of Population Health
NYU Langone Health
New York, NY

Eunjin Lee Tracy, PhD
University of Utah
Department of Psychology
Salt Lake City, UT

Sunmin Lee, ScD

Soomi Lee, PhD
School of Aging Studies
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL

Tené T. Lewis, PhD

Vicki Li

Faith S. Luyster, PhD
University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing
Pittsburgh, PA

Izraelle I. McKinnon, MPH
Department of Epidemiology
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
Atlanta, GA

Brett M. Millar, PhD
City University of New York (CUNY)
New York, NY

Jonna L. Morris, PhD, RN
University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing
Pittsburgh, PA

João Nunes, MD
The City College of New York School of Medicine
New York, NY

Louise M. O'Brien, PhD, MS
Associate Professor, Divisions of Sleep Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology
Department of Neurology
Michigan Medicine
Ann Arbor, MI,

Brian Redline, BA
USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Rebecca Robbins, PhD
Department of Population Health
NYU Langone Health
New York, NY

Azizi Seixas, PhD
Department of Population Health
NYU Langone Health
New York, NY

Natalie Slopen, ScD

Katie L. Stone, Ph.D

Wendy M. Troxel, PhD
RAND Corporation
Behavioral and Health Sciences Division
Pittsburgh, PA

Natasha Williams, EdD
Department of Population Health
NYU Langone Health
New York, NY