The need to promote sleep health in public health agendas across the globe

Healthy sleep is essential for physical and mental health, and social wellbeing; however, across the globe, and particularly in developing countries, national public health agendas rarely consider sleep health. Sleep should be promoted as an essential pillar of health, equivalent to nutrition and ph...

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Published inThe Lancet. Public health Vol. 8; no. 10; pp. e820 - e826
Main Authors Lim, Diane C, Najafi, Arezu, Afifi, Lamia, Bassetti, Claudio LA, Buysse, Daniel J, Han, Fang, Högl, Birgit, Melaku, Yohannes Adama, Morin, Charles M, Pack, Allan I, Poyares, Dalva, Somers, Virend K, Eastwood, Peter R, Zee, Phyllis C, Jackson, Chandra L
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2023
Subjects
Health Education
Health Policy
Humans
Internal Medicine
Public Health
Public Policy
Sleep
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ISSN2468-2667
2468-2667
DOI10.1016/S2468-2667(23)00182-2

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Summary:Healthy sleep is essential for physical and mental health, and social wellbeing; however, across the globe, and particularly in developing countries, national public health agendas rarely consider sleep health. Sleep should be promoted as an essential pillar of health, equivalent to nutrition and physical activity. To improve sleep health across the globe, a focus on education and awareness, research, and targeted public health policies are needed. We recommend developing sleep health educational programmes and awareness campaigns; increasing, standardising, and centralising data on sleep quantity and quality in every country across the globe; and developing and implementing sleep health policies across sectors of society. Efforts are needed to ensure equity and inclusivity for all people, particularly those who are most socially and economically vulnerable, and historically excluded.
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Contributed equally
DCL and AN as equal first authors contributed to the literature search, figures development, study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, writing, reviewing, and editing. LA, CLAB, DJB, FH, BH, CMM, AIP, DP, and VKS contributed to the study design, data interpretation, writing, reviewing, and editing. YAM contributed to the study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation of the global school-based student health survey (GSHS) data, writing, reviewing and editing. CLJ, PCZ, and PRE as equal senior authors closely supervised the literature search, figure concepts, content structure, analysing and interpreting data, writing, reviewing, and editing.
ISSN:2468-2667
2468-2667
DOI:10.1016/S2468-2667(23)00182-2