Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation: An Unmet Public Health Problem assesses the scope of sleep, sleep loss, and sleep disorders in the public health context; identifies current gaps in the public health system related to sleep, as well as the resources available to address those gaps; identifies how research, medical education, and training in the areas of sleep and sleep medicine may be improved; and develops a plan to advance interdisciplinary sleep medicine and sleep research.

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Reduce Risk or Incidence of Disease or Condition, Public Health, Academics, Research & Development, Environmental & Policy, Informational & Educational, Primary Prevention, Clinical Practice, Patients

Insitute of Medicine of the National Academies, Reports. Harvey R. Colten and Bruce M. Altevogt, Editors, Committee on Sleep Medicine and Research Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Sleep Medicine and Research; Colten HR, Altevogt BM, editors [Internet]. 2006 [cited 2013 Jan 22]; Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Available from http://iom.edu/Reports/2006/Sleep-Disorders-and-Sleep-Deprivation-An-Unmet-Public-Health-Problem.aspx