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World Sleep Day 2024: Check Date, Theme, History, Significance, & MoreBy Shikha Goyal Last Updated: Mar 15, 2024, 11:40 IST

World Sleep Day 2024: It is an annual awareness event hosted by the World Sleep Society since 2008. Read more about World Sleep Day, its 2024 theme, history, and significance.

World Sleep Day 2024: It is celebrated annually and held on the Friday before the spring equinox of each year. The exact date changes annually, but it is always held on Friday. This year it is celebrated on March 15. The day is a call to action on significant issues related to sleep disorders. The day spread awareness about the importance of regular sleep for achieving an ideal quality of life and improving health globally.

What is a Sleep Disorder?

Sleep disorder is generally known as a disturbance of normal sleep patterns. There are a number of sleep disorders that range from trouble falling asleep, to nightmares, sleepwalking, and sleep apnea. The major risk factors for sleep disorders are advancing age, family history, lifestyle, and stress or overthinking nature.

Affecting overall health and quality of life, the early signs of sleep disorders are excessive daytime sleepiness, irregular breathing, or increased movement during sleep.

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World Sleep Day 2024:Theme

The World Sleep Day 2024 theme is 'Sleep Equity for Global Health'. Sleep is essential to health, but measurable differences in sleep health persist across populations across the world, creating additional burdens and reinforcing health inequities.

The theme for World Sleep Day 2023 is 'sleep is essential for health.' And the idea behind it is to educate people about the importance of sleep for a sound mind and body.

The theme of World Sleep Day 2022 is "Quality Sleep, Sound Mind, Happy World." It focuses on how quality sleep helps in maintaining mental health. How does better sleep help focus people during the day? How might fatigue weigh us down physically, mentally, and emotionally? Why is quality sleep important? and several other reasons why sleep is a foundational pillar of human health.

The 14th annual World Sleep Day was observed on 19 March 2021, and the slogan was ‘Regular Sleep, Healthy Future.’ The slogan focuses on regular sleep which is based on the benefits that regular sleep offers. Studies have shown that stable bedtime and rise times are linked with better sleep quality in young, middle-aged adults and seniors. Those who take regular sleep have better moods and academic achievements.

The 2020 year marks the 13th annual World Sleep Day on 13 March. The slogan of World Sleep Day is Better Sleep, Better Life, Better Planet. It highlights the importance of sleep which acts as a pillar of health, allows better decision-making, and generates a cognitive understanding. It also focuses on the quality of life that can be improved with healthy sleep. We can understand it like this when sleep fails, health declines and on the other side decrease the quality of life. Sound sleep is a treasured function.

World Sleep Day: History

Since 2008, World Sleep Day is observed annually as a global awareness event that is hosted by the World Sleep Society. World Sleep Day's first co-chairs were Liborio Parrino, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology at Parma University, Italy, and Antonio Culebras, MD, Professor of Neurology, at Upstate Medical University, and Consultant, The Sleep Center, Community General Hospital, Syracuse, New York, USA.

Therefore, we can say that it is an annual awareness event started by a group of dedicated healthcare providers and members of the medical community working and studying in the area of sleep medicine and research. The main goal of the first World Sleep Day was to bring healthcare providers together to discuss the information related to sleep across the globe and distribute its importance.

World Sleep Day 2024: Significance

The World Sleep Society states that professionals and researchers in the field of sleep medicine have repeatedly encountered the idea that getting enough sleep is not crucial to one's health and well-being. Because of this, the goal of World Sleep Day is to lessen the impact of sleep issues on society by spreading awareness and proper management.

On this day, more than 88 countries host local, regional, and national events to promote sleep health. These events are organized by members of the World Sleep Society, sleep specialists, and community health advocates.

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World Sleep Day: Celebrations

To improve the poor sleep habits that are a cause of poor quality sleep in adults the World Sleep Society has provided 10 tips. Like:

• Fix a regular bedtime and waking time.
• If you are habitual of taking siestas then do not exceed 45 minutes of daytime sleep.
• Avoid taking excessive alcohol at least 4 hours before bedtime and also do not smoke.
• Avoid taking caffeine 6 hours before going to bedtime. It includes coffee, tea, soda drinks, and chocolates.
• Take a light snack before going to bed at night. It will be better to avoid heavy, spicy, or sugary foods 4 hours before bedtime.
• Do regular exercise.
• Use comfortable bedding.
• Sleep in a properly ventilated room along with a comfortable sleep temperature setting.

• Discard or block all distracting noise before heading to sleep.
• Also, it's advised to sleep in dim light to amp the production of melatonin, which in turn may improve your sleep cycle.

In the end, let us have a look at some sleep disorders that affect our life majorly:

Sleep disorders can be of various types and can be grouped into various categories including behavior, problems with natural sleep-wake cycles, breathing problems, difficulty in sleeping, or how much sleep you feel during the day. Common types of sleep disorders are:

• Insomnia: Difficulty falling asleep or remaining asleep during the whole night.
• Sleep Apnea: When you are sleeping in the night you feel difficulty in breathing patterns. There are several types of sleep apnea.
• Restless legs syndrome (RLS): It is a sleep movement disorder. It is also known as Willis-Ekbom disease. It also causes an uncomfortable sensation and an urge to move the legs while you try to fall asleep.
• Narcolepsy: It is a condition that is characterized by extreme sleepiness during the day and falling asleep during the day.

Sleep is one of the most important activities of our life. A person should at least take seven to eight hours of sleep every day. World Sleep Day is a call to action on various issues related to sleep, including medicine, education, social aspects, and driving. As the Committee aims to reduce the burden of the problems related to sleep on society via better prevention and management of sleep disorders.

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Shikha GoyalShikha Goyal is a journalist and a content writer with 9+ years of experience. She is a Science Graduate with Post Graduate degrees in Mathematics and Mass Communication & Journalism. She has previously taught in an IAS coaching institute and was also an editor in the publishing industry. At jagranjosh.com, she creates digital content on General Knowledge. She can be reached at [email protected]... Read MoreFirst Published: Mar 15, 2024, 01:34 IST

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