During my tenure with the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), I have strongly advocated
for a sharp focus on sleep health. Other organizations already concentrate on sleep
medicine and sleep research. Sleep health extends far beyond the absence of pathology.
In the past several years, we revisited our sleep duration recommendations, made a
first bold step to determine the elements of sleep quality, and began examining sleep
satisfaction. Now we have created an instrument to index sleep health. This tool will
provide an enduring metric for sleep health and deliver information about the general
population's macro changes in sleep behaviors. It is unclear why it took this long
to evolve. The reason may stem from clinical urgency to assess and treat unhealthy
sleep (ie, where sleep health meets the need for sleep health care). Many of us work
professionally and view sleep either from a vantage point built atop sleep medicine
or from the reductionist perspective of a research laboratory. There is, however,
a bigger picture.
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Published online: June 19, 2017
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© 2017 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of National Sleep Foundation.
