The Sleep Health Foundation and The Australasian Sleep Association are working together to promote awareness and behaviour change for all Australians and empowering & educating primary care providers. The need to promote awareness around the importance of sleep has become increasingly apparent with the emergence of compelling evidence about its impact on mental, metabolic and physical health, quality of life and workplace productivity and safety.
Reduction in the current economic burden of poor and inadequate sleep to the Australian ecominy which is costed at $66.3 billion annually.