Socioeconomic disparities in sleep duration among veterans of the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Widome, R., Jensen, A., & Fu, S.S. (2015). Socioeconomic disparities in sleep duration among veterans of the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. American Journal of Public Health, 105 (2), e70-e74. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2014.302375
- Quality and duration of sleep is an important component of one's health for the general population and especially so for Veterans. Associations between short sleep duration and greater number of deployments, more children in the household, and a lower subjective social status-including perceptions of racism or discrimination-relative to one's community or the negation generally were observed in this study of OEF/OIF/OND Veterans.
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