How you income and where you live affect your sleep?

In Australia, few studies have explored the social determinants of quality sleep, but international research has pointed to links between disadvantaged social circumstances and poor shut-eye. One key study comes from the United States where in 2010, Pennsylvania researchers found poor sleep quality was strongly associated with both poverty and ethnicity. The study surveyed 9,714 people on their sleeping habits and found that African-American and Latino participants demonstrated increased odds for reporting poor sleep, as did people who were unemployed, unmarried or had high stress levels. The link between poor social conditions and bad health Australians don't have to look far to find inequalities in health as Sir Michael Marmot outlined in his Boyer lecture series. The higher a person's education level, the more likely they were to report good quality sleep. Poverty across the board was found to increase the odds for poor sleep, with people below the poverty line in white communities demonstrating the highest likelihood of all for reporting low quality rest.

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