World Sleep Day 2025 is Friday, March 14 and incorporates the theme Make Sleep Health a Priority.
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?
Initiated by the World Sleep Society, World Sleep Day is an annual event focusing on the importance of sleep. It is a call to action on issues related to sleep, including medicine, education, social aspects, and driving. It aims to lessen the burden of sleep problems on society through better prevention and management of sleep disorders.
The Benefits of Good Sleep
Quality sleep is crucial for our physical and mental health. It improves cognition, concentration, productivity, and overall mental health. On World Sleep Day, we emphasise the need to address sleep disorders and promote habits leading to quality sleep.
History of World Sleep Day
Hosted since 2008, World Sleep Day is a global awareness act that celebrates sleep and aims to help those with serious sleep problems. Celebrated on the Friday before Spring Vernal Equinox of each year, this holiday has an annual 155 events held across the world and is participated by over 70 countries.
World Sleep Day focuses on various issues related to sleep, sleep medicine, education about sleep, and the social effects that sleep deprivation can have on everyday life. From mild to severe, sleep difficulties are modern problem that may have the ability to hijack people's entire lives if not kept in check.
According to the American Sleep Association, over 50 to 70 million people have some type of sleeping disorder, over 25 million have sleep apnea, and most commonly reported sleep problem is insomnia (the inability to sleep at all or for a full night).
Organised by the World Sleep Day Committee of the World Sleep Society, this day began with a group of health professionals and providers who were studying in the area of sleep medicine and sleep research.
World Sleep Day aims to bring people together, whether everyday people or healthcare providers, to discuss sleep problems, help find solutions, and prevent sleep problems for those whodon't yet have them.
Doctors such as Liborio Parrino, MD, Italy and Antonio Culebras, MD, were the first co-chair members of World Sleep Day and aided in creating the World Sleep Society, a non-profit organisation dedicated to helping fund research for ever-pervading sleep problems faced in the world today.
The World Sleep Society works with various news organisations to help them spread the word and report about the effects sleep can have on day to day life. It's all about getting the word out and letting people know where to find help!
