National Healthy Sleep Awareness Project
CDC awarded the American Academy of Sleep MedicineExternal
- Expand sleep health promotion and sleep prevention awareness.
- Develop partnerships and collaborations to improve education and awareness about sleep hygiene.
- Improve provider knowledge and skills about sleep health promotion.
- Recommend a sleep health data collection model.
- Identify and disseminate sleep health-related policies.
The project focuses on the following Healthy People 2020 Sleep Health objectives:
- Increase the proportion of persons with symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea who seek medical evaluation.
- Reduce the rate of vehicular crashes per 100 million miles traveled that are due to drowsy driving.
- Increase the proportion of students in grades 9 through 12 who get sufficient sleep.
- Increase the proportion of adults who get sufficient sleep.
Page last reviewed: May 4, 2017