Foundations of Sleep Health
eBook - ePub

Foundations of Sleep Health

  1. 356 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Foundations of Sleep Health

About this book

Foundations of Sleep Health presents sleep health as a critical element of overall individual and population health. Sleep disorders are an increasing problem plaguing more than 40 million Americans. Sleep impacts numerous biological functions and plays a critical role in brain development, including learning and memory consolidation, cognitive functioning, and emotion regulation. This book provides an historic and current overview of the state of sleep health with an emphasis on the interplay between several levels of determinants and factors that influence sleep health. The text provides students in the health professions with in-depth discussion on the theory, research, and practice of sleep health, while also detailing mechanisms, hypotheses, and determinants of sleep and ways to improve sleep health.- Discusses the current state of knowledge of sleep health, research into the factors that contribute to and are impacted by sleep health- Uses a socioecological model to examine the whole range of determinants of sleep health, from biological to upstream environmental factors and possible modes of intervention- Contains a detailed glossary of sleep health terms to aid in the understanding of key concepts- Includes learning outcomes for each chapter, objective assessments of knowledge, with explanations, and open-ended questions designed to facilitate discussion

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Yes, you can access Foundations of Sleep Health by F. Javier Nieto,Donna Petersen in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychology & Neuroscience. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9780128155011
eBook ISBN
9780128155028
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Neuroscience
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Title of Book
  2. Cover image
  3. Title page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Copyright
  6. List of contributors
  7. Foreword
  8. Chapter 1 Components of normal human sleep
  9. Chapter 2 Sleep in human and cultural evolution
  10. Chapter 3 Measuring sleep health
  11. Chapter 4 Genetic and biological factors in sleep
  12. Chapter 5 Psychosocial dimensions of sleep health
  13. Chapter 6 Associations between sleep, diet, and exercise: implications for health and well-being
  14. Chapter 7 Sleep health in children and adolescents
  15. Chapter 8 The family’s role in sleep health
  16. Chapter 9 Sleep health and aging
  17. Chapter 10 Determinants and health consequences of modifiable sleep health disparities
  18. Chapter 11 Bedroom environment and sleep health
  19. Chapter 12 Built environment and sleep health
  20. Chapter 13 The healthcare environment: a medical and a public health challenge
  21. Chapter 14 The policy environment
  22. Index