Sleep Medicine for Clinical Public Health and Occupational Practice is a practical, evidence-based guide that places sleep at the centre of everyday clinical care, community health and workplace safety. In 29 chapters it follows sleep across the life course. It covers physiology, history-taking, questionnaires, diaries and the interpretation of sleep studies. It then moves to the major disorders: insomnia and cognitive behavioural treatment, obstructive and central sleep apnoea, positive airway pressure therapy, narcolepsy and other hypersomnias, circadian disorders, restless legs and parasomnias.

Later chapters show how sleep interacts with children’s and women’s health, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular, renal, mental, neurological and immune disease, and pain. The book gives particular attention to night shifts, hybrid work, fatigue, transport safety and fitness for duty. It draws on Indian evidence and community programmes, and closes with innovations in digital care, teaching cases, and systems for implementation, training, audit and referral.

Five appendices make it ready to use in the clinic or workplace: an editable sleep history form, a 14-day sleep and shift diary, quick-reference SOPs, patient and workplace communication templates, and a reading matrix of Indian and landmark research. It is written for physicians, public health professionals, occupational health teams, postgraduate trainees and primary care teams.