Racial/ethnic disparities in sleep health and potential interventions among women in the United States

CL Jackson, TM Powell-Wiley, SA Gaston… - Journal of Women's …, 2020 - liebertpub.com
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 …

Reducing health disparities: the role of sleep deficiency and sleep disorders

AD Laposky, E Van Cauter, AV Diez-Roux - Sleep medicine, 2016 - Elsevier
Decrements in sleep health, including insufficient sleep duration, irregular timing of sleep,
poor sleep quality, and sleep/circadian disorders, are widespread in modern society and are …

Eliminating sleep health disparities and achieving health equity: Seven areas for action in the behavioral sleep medicine community

AJ Hughes, H Gunn, C Siengsukon… - Behavioral sleep …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Racial and ethnically minoritized and under-resourced populations do not reap the same
benefits of sufficient sleep as their white counterparts resulting in insufficient sleep and sleep …

A workshop report on the causes and consequences of sleep health disparities

CL Jackson, JR Walker, MK Brown, R Das, NL Jones - Sleep, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Sleep deficiencies, which include insufficient or long sleep duration, poor sleep quality, and
irregular timing of sleep, are disproportionately distributed among populations that …

Are sleep patterns influenced by race/ethnicity–a marker of relative advantage or disadvantage? Evidence to date

DA Johnson, CL Jackson, NJ Williams… - Nature and science of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Sleep is a fundamental necessity of life. However, sleep health and sleep disorders are not
equitably distributed across racial/ethnic groups. In fact, growing research consistently …

Exploring sex and gender differences in sleep health: a Society for Women's Health Research Report

MP Mallampalli, CL Carter - Journal of women's health, 2014 - liebertpub.com
Previous attempts have been made to address sleep disorders in women; however,
significant knowledge gaps in research and a lack of awareness among the research …

Understanding the role of structural racism in sleep disparities: a call to action and methodological considerations

DA Johnson, B Reiss, P Cheng, CL Jackson - Sleep, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Historically and currently marginalized populations disproportionately experience
adversities that negatively impact sleep health [1, 2]. For instance, racially minoritized …

Racial/ethnic disparities in sleep health and health care: importance of the sociocultural context

NJ Williams, MA Grandner, SA Snipes, A Rogers… - Sleep health, 2015 - Elsevier
Sleep may play an important role in health disparities. Indeed, several studies have shown
that racial/ethnic minorities in the United States are more likely to report short (≤ 6 hours) …

[HTML][HTML] Importance of recognizing sleep health disparities and implementing innovative interventions to reduce these disparities

G Jean-Louis, M Grandner - Sleep medicine, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Estimates suggest that by 2040 approximately half of the US population will consist of
individuals who self-identify as minority. Yet, there has not been a concerted effort to …

Association of sleep characteristics with cardiovascular health among women and differences by race/ethnicity and menopausal status: findings from the American …

N Makarem, MP St-Onge, M Liao, DM Lloyd-Jones… - Sleep Health, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Objective Sleep is an emerging risk factor for cardiovascular
disease (CVD) that is not currently included as a cardiovascular health (CVH) metric in the …