Sleep disorders are a significant and growing problem, both for the economy of the nation and for the physical and psychological well-being of individual sufferers. The purpose of this research was to investigate the operational, administrative and medical environment within which sleep...

Concerns regarding sleep disorders in Hmong immigrants in the US emerged when an astonishingly high mortality rate of Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome (SUNDS) was documented in Hmong men. Stress, genetics, and cardiac abnormalities interacting with disordered sleep were hypothesized...

In the elicitation of explanatory models for illnesses, accounts of spouses are strangely absent. This becomes critically missing information for a disorder like sleep apnea, in which a spouse or partner is often the primary agent responsible for the initial diagnosis and push to seek medical...