141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Online Program

3028.0
Epidemiology of Sleep in Diverse Populations

Monday, November 4, 2013: 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Oral
Members attending this session will obtain information on the epidemiology of sleep and its correlates with health outcomes throughout the life cycle.
Session Objectives: Describe the social, developmental, and contextual correlates of sleep duration in adolescence and young adulthood. Describe the relationship of children’s TV behavior to sleep duration throughout early childhood. Discuss the relationship between shift work and obesity.
Moderator:
Lisa Libassi, RN, MN, MPH, CPH

8:30am
Introductory Remarks
8:38am
Normative sleep duration in adolescence and young adulthood: National data from the add health study   
Julie Maslowsky, PhD
8:56am
Television viewing, TV in the bedroom, and sleep duration throughout early childhood   
Elizabeth Cespedes, SM, Matthew Gillman, MD, MPH, Sheryl Rifas-Shiman, MPH, Susan Redline, MD, MPH and Elsie Taveras, MD, MPH
9:14am
Shift work in association with abdominal fat areas, body mass index, and metabolic syndrome: The hitachi health study   
Siyan Yi, Yumi Matsushita and Tetsuya Mizoue
9:32am
Traffic-related air pollution and sleep: Variations by gender and socioeconomic status   
Shona Fang, ScD, Joel Schwartz, PhD, May Yang, MPH, Donald Bliwise, PhD, Klar Yaggi, MD, MPH and Andre Araujo, PhD
9:50am
Concluding Remarks

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Organized by: Epidemiology

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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