BENEFITS OF ENOUGH SLEEP By: Arjunisa Diahwanti

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Sleep is vital for health and well-being in children, adolescents, and adults. Healthy sleep is important for cognitive functioning, mood, mental health, and cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and metabolic health. Adequate quantity and quality of sleep also play a role in reducing the risk of accidents and injuries caused by sleepiness and fatigue, including workplace accidents and motor vehicle crashes.hort-term sleep deprivation, long-term sleep restriction, circadian misalignment, and untreated sleep disorders can have a profound and detrimental impact on physical health, mental health, mood, and public safety. Chronic insufficient sleep is associated with an increased risk of mortality and contributes to both the individual risk and societal burden associated with several medical epidemics, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, and cancer. Emerging data suggest that extending the nightly sleep duration of people who habitually get insufficient sleep is associated with health benefits.

that sleep is essential to health. Because of sleep’s significant and multifaceted connections to health and chronic disease, sleep education should have a prominent place in K-12 and college health education, medical school and graduate medical education, and educational programs for other health professionals. Clinicians should routinely inquire about sleep habits and symptoms of sleep and circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders during patient encounters, and hospitals and long-term care facilities should optimize sleep conditions. Healthy sleep should be targeted by public health and workplace interventions to improve health-related outcomes, and behaviors that help people attain healthy sleep should be actively promoted. More sleep and circadian research is needed to further elucidate the importance of sleep for public health and the contributions of insufficient sleep to health disparities.

Sleep is essential to health. While significant resources have been invested in individual and population-level interventions to address health-related lifestyle factors such as nutrition, exercise, and smoking, programs focusing on sleep health have been notably rare. To promote public health and safety, widespread support is needed to increase sleep education, improve sleep disorders screening, optimize sleep conditions for inpatients and residents of long-term care facilities, optimize sleep health through public health and workplace interventions, and expand sleep health research.

 

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