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Causes: Health, Public Health, Voluntary Health Associations & Medical Disciplines
Mission: To improve health and well-being through sleep education and advocacy
Programs: Awareness: including programs such as sleep awareness week, educational brochures that are distributed to the public through nsf licensed partners and participating health care providers, sleep in america poll, participation in blogger conferences and digital/social media activations, and the national sleep foundation websites properties www. Sleepfoundation. Org and others.
education: accredited by the accreditation council for continuing medical education (accme) to provide sleep health continuing medical education to physycians with live and enduring activities, and tools for primary care physicians.
public policy: ongoing advocacy efforts to educate policy makers about access to sleep care, drowsy driving, sleep for kids, and the need for funding to advance research that expands our understanding of sleep. Also includes programs such as national sleep advocacy roundtable (nsart) to foster sleep health safety coordination and collaboration among health care organizations.