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1Center for Sleep and Vigilance Disorders, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Sleep is a fundamental biological necessity that remains underrecognized in global health policy. This perspective argues that sleep health constitutes a core pillar of public health and a key determinant of health equity. Moving beyond a deficit-based focus on clinical sleep disorders, a holistic sleep health framework highlights the social, environmental, and structural factors shaping population sleep patterns. Incorporating multidimensional sleep metrics into population health surveillance and public health agendas, aligned with the American Heart Association's Life's Essential 8 and the calls from the World Sleep Society Global Sleep Health Taskforce, can help address the "sleep gap" in society. Prioritizing sleep health is therefore essential to reducing chronic disease burden and improving population-level resilience and health outcomes.
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