April is National Minority Health Month! Sleep is important for health and well-being, but equitable opportunities for good quality sleep are not available to everyone. Learn more about efforts to understand and improve sleep in minoritized groups in these journal SLEEP articles:
- Individual and neighborhood socioeconomic status and long-term individual trajectories of sleep duration among Black and White adults: the Southern Community Cohort Study
- Sleepless in COVID-19: racial disparities during the pandemic as a consequence of structural inequity
- Sleep among gender minority adolescents
- Determinants of postpartum sleep duration and sleep efficiency in minority women
- Disparities in sleep duration and restedness among same- and different-sex couples: findings from the American Time Use Survey
- Tailored Behavioral Intervention Among Blacks With Metabolic Syndrome and Sleep Apnea: Results of the MetSO Trial
- A Relationship between REM Sleep Measures and the Duration of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in a Young Adult Urban Minority Population
- Short and Long Sleep Duration Associated with Race/Ethnicity, Sociodemographics, and Socioeconomic Position
- Sleep Duration and Five-Year Abdominal Fat Accumulation in a Minority Cohort: The IRAS Family Study
Image from US Department of Health and Human Services National Minority Health Month 2024 Toolkit
