Author: Jackson, Chandra L.; Powell-Wiley, Tiffany M.; Gaston, Symielle A.; Andrews, Marcus R.; Tamura, Kosuke; Ramos, Alberto
Description: While essential for health and wellness, the various dimensions of sleep health are generally not equitably distributed across the population, and reasons for racial/ethnic sleep disparities are not fully understood. In this review, we describe racial/ethnic sleep disparities and subsequent implications for health from prior and recently conducted epidemiological and clinical studies as well as the potential sleep interventions presented at the 2018 Research Conference on Sleep and the Health of Women at the National Institutes of Health. Given the clear connection between sleep and poor health outcomes such as cardiovascular disease, we concluded that future studies are needed to focus on sleep health in general, sleep disorders such as insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea in particular, and disparities in both sleep health and sleep disorders among women using an intersectional framework. Future research should also integrate sleep into interventional research focused on women’s health as these results could address health disparities by informing, for example, future mobile health (mHealth) interventions prioritizing women beyond the clinical setting.
Subject headings: Cardiovascular Diseases; Continental Population Groups; Ethnic Groups; Female; Health Status Disparities; Humans; Sex Characteristics; Sex Factors; Sleep; Sleep Apnea, Obstructive; Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders; Sleep Wake Disorders; Social Determinants of Health; Socioeconomic Factors; United States; Ethnic disparities; Interventions; Racial disparities; Sleep health
Publication year: 2020
Journal or book title: Journal of Women’s Health
Volume: 29
Issue: 3
Pages: 435-442
Find the full text: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7097680/pdf/jwh.2020.8329.pdf
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