The scientific evidence is clear: your sleep is essential to health and wellbeing. Good sleep promotes wellness and resilience while poor sleep negatively impacts almost all aspects of your body and mind. Your sleep is just as important as nutrition and exercise!
It’s time to make your sleep health a priority. Here is how to start:
- Maintain a regular sleep schedule.
- Create a relaxing environment for sleep.
- Reflect during your day: do you feel rested?
What is World Sleep Day?
Created and hosted by World Sleep Society, World Sleep Day is an internationally recognized event that builds connections and raises sleep health awareness among researchers, health care workers, patients, and the public. Participants from each of these stakeholder groups organize sleep health awareness activities in their local clinics, institutions, companies, and communities.
Activity organizers submit their activities to the official website of World Sleep Day at worldsleepday.org. Submitting your activity helps to promote it and to save it for the historical record. Submitted activities are automatically considered for the Distinguished Activity Award, an annual award distributed to a short list of activities as determined by the World Sleep Day committee. Browse our list of award-winning activities for inspiration to organize your own!
The World Sleep Day Committee is co-chaired by Dr. Fang Han (China) and Dr. Lourdes DelRosso (United States).
Road to better sleep
Good Quality Sleep & Chronic Insomnia
World Sleep Society has collaborated with Idorsia to create an evidence-based resource that answers these simple questions in plain language:
- What does good quality sleep look like?
- What causes disturbed sleep?
- What is chronic insomnia?
