Occupational Health - Public Health Poster Session

Re: Sleep Deficit, Fatal Accidents, and the Spring Shift to, Daylight Savings Time - Comments

Stanley Coren
scoren@cortex.psych.ubc.ca

On Wed Dec 9, Lucian Tefas wrote
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>Very interesting paper. I like it very much.Congratulation.
>Could you tell us if in the Spring Shif to Dayling Saving Time, beyond the fatal accidents, it was observed  a short term decreasing of work productivity?
>

Thank you. We have only looked at accidents, since the measures are quite unambiguous. It might, indeed, be interesting to look at productivity (and maybe even cognitive efficiency) as a function of shifts to DST.

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