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Sleep Health: An Opportunity for Public Health to Address Health Equity
- Source :
- Annual review of public health
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Annual Reviews, 2020.
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Abstract
- The concept of sleep health provides a positive holistic framing of multiple sleep characteristics, including sleep duration, continuity, timing, alertness, and satisfaction. Sleep health promotion is an underrecognized public health opportunity with implications for a wide range of critical health outcomes, including cardiovascular disease, obesity, mental health, and neurodegenerative disease. Using a socioecological framework, we describe interacting domains of individual, social, and contextual influences on sleep health. To the extent that these determinants of sleep health are modifiable, sleep and public health researchers may benefit from taking a multilevel approach for addressing disparities in sleep health. For example, in addition to providing individual-level sleep behavioral recommendations, health promotion interventions need to occur at multiple contextual levels (e.g., family, schools, workplaces, media, and policy). Because sleep health, a key indicator of overall health, is unevenly distributed across the population, we consider improving sleep health a necessary step toward achieving health equity.
- Subjects :
- Gerontology
medicine.medical_specialty
Social Determinants of Health
Population
Psychological intervention
Health Promotion
Disease
Article
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Humans
sleep health
030212 general & internal medicine
sleep
education
health disparities
education.field_of_study
Health Equity
Public health
public health
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Health Status Disparities
General Medicine
Mental health
Health equity
Alertness
Health promotion
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15452093 and 01637525
- Volume :
- 41
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Annual Review of Public Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6815af4997b33e25946a42083ac5d49b