Event Info
The Sleep Health Foundation (SHF) is delighted to announce that Sleep Health Week will take place from Monday 5 August to Friday 9 August in 2024. This annual event highlights the importance of sleep health and encourages the public to prioritise sleep to improve their overall health and wellbeing and to see a healthcare professional when they are concerned about their sleep.
This year's theme, Pathways to Better Sleep, provides an excellent opportunity for us to emphasise the importance of sleep health and its profound impact on overall wellbeing. The theme will cover a range of sleep topics including general sleep disturbances, sleep disorders, and how to adopt healthy sleep habits.
Key messages for Sleep Health Week 2024:
- Sleep is one of the three pillars of a healthy lifestyle alongside healthy eating and regular exercise
- Sleep disturbances may lead to poorer physical and mental health and may increase the chances of someone getting sick or developing other chronic health concerns
- Sleep disorders can have a significant negative impact on people’s lives
- For people who have a suspected sleep disorder, how they can get diagnosed and the best treatments available for sleep disorders
- For people that struggle to have a regular sleeping pattern (e.g., new parents, shift workers) there are strategies they can use to help reduce the disturbances from these lifestyle factors
- The SHF has multiple resources such as fact sheets and webinars available for individuals who are wanting to improve their sleep and health
How you can participate in Sleep Health Week 2024:
- Consider a morning tea and/or a PJ day as a novelty to highlight discussions about sleep to improve overall health; consider a gold coin donation to the Sleep Health Foundation.
- Consider organising a workplace or community activity that aligns with sleep hygiene or healthy sleep messaging, such as outdoor morning yoga (weather permitting), or a book club that encourages reading over screen time in the evenings, etc.
- Hold a competition within your workplace to hear from your own people how best to improve sleep and reduce fatigue in your workplace – consider the prize to be a “wellness day” (of extra leave).
- Request one of our speakers to present at your school, workplace, or community group on a chosen sleep topic through our Speaker Program.
- Share information about Sleep Health Week on your company's communication channels, such as newsletters, intranet, or any other platform that reaches your audience.
- Amplify Sleep Health Week messages by sharing our posts, infographics, and relevant content on social media. Suggested hashtags: #SleepHealthWeek2024 #SHW2024 #SleepHealthWeek #PathwaysToBetterSleep #sleephealth #sleep
A calendar of public events, such as planned webinars, available during Sleep Health Week will be shared over the coming weeks.