Occupational sleep disorder and health risk dashboard

Project objective: To analyze sleep disorders and their contributing factors across different occupation and health conditions.

Aim: To uncover pattern and correlation between sleep quality, stress level, physical activities, hear rate and health conditions such as hypertension and obesity.

Goals:

• To understand the impact of profession on sleep health.
• To analyze the relationship between sleep quality and health conditions.
  
• Evaluate key factors contributing to sleep disorder
• Provide actionable insights for improving healthy sleep.

Methodology:  To analyze occupational sleep disorder and health risk dataset, I cleaned the dataset using power query, performed data modeling and applied calculated measures in power pivot and dashboard report in excel.

Report: Based on the occupational sleep disorder and health risk dashboard, I was able to analyze 

1. Occupational group experiencing unequal sleep issues: The top three professional affected are Nurses, Doctors and Engineers. Thus, medical professionals appear to suffer from sleep disorder the most. This could be due to irregular work hours, nights shifts and high stress levels, highlighting the sleep management programs for health care workers.
   
2. Poor sleep quality is strongly correlated with various health conditions including cardiovascular disease (heart conditions related), high blood pressure and obesity.

Factors contributing to sleep disorder

• Occupation: The top three professional affected are Nurses, Doctors and Engineers. Thus, medical professionals appear to suffer from sleep disorder the most. This could be due to irregular work hours, nights shifts and high stress levels, highlighting the sleep management programs for health care workers.
  
• Physical activities: 151 Individuals has low physical activities compared to 223 high physical activities. Research indicates that lack of physical activity is linked to high prevalence to sleep disorder, Thus, encouraging workplace wellness program, exercise routine and healthier lifestyles mitigate these health issues.
  
•  Obesity: The overweight population of 148 and obese population of 10, when combined together outnumber those of normal weight 216. Overweight and obesity are strongly correlated with various sleep disorder with individuals with high BMI (Body Mass Index) having a higher risk of sleep problems, particularly like sleep apnea where breathing stop and starts during sleep. thus, implementing lifestyle changes such as diet control, physical activities could improve overall health.
  
•  Stress Levels: High stress levels can disrupt sleep creating a vicious cycle that can lead to chronic insomnia. Stress triggers the release of cortisol which is a stress hormone that activates stress response. To this high cortisol level can make it harder to fall asleep and stay asleep. Thus, stress reducing intervention such as medication, therapy and flexible work arrangements could improve both the mental and physical outcomes.