Socioeconomic disparities in sleep duration among veterans of the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

R. Widome, A. Jensen and S.S. Fu

American Journal of Public Health, 2015, vol. 105, issue 2, e70-e74

Abstract: We characterized socioeconomic disparities in short sleep duration, which is linked to multiple adverse health outcomes, in a population based sample of veterans of the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who had interacted with the Minneapolis VA Health Care System. Lower reported household assets, lower food security, greater reported discrimination, and lower subjective social status were significantly (P

Keywords: epidemiology; female; health disparity; human; male; sleep deprivation; socioeconomics; statistics and numerical data; United States; veteran; war, Afghan Campaign 2001-; Female; Health Status Disparities; Humans; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Male; Sleep Deprivation; Socioeconomic Factors; United States; Veterans (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302375

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