"More recently, research has highlighted the negative impacts that sleep deprivation can have on other areas of our physical and mental health, including obesity and loneliness, both leading risk factors for premature death themselves. In the light of this, might we start to see sleep join free speech and education as a fundamental human right?
We don’t get enough sleep as a country, with neuroscientists such as Matthew Walker claiming we're in the midst of a sleep-loss epidemic. Disparities in the amount of shut-eye we get based on gender, ethnicity and occupation are also becoming increasingly apparent, underscoring the need to develop a better understanding of sleep inequalities."
Source: https://www.nesta.org.uk/feature/signals-2022/sleep-new-frontier-health-inequality/
We are currently conducting a project that is linked to sleep - examining state of the art knowledge about circadian rhythms of people and how they potentially change - because of new technology, of the pandemic inducing new daily structures and and and...results may still take some time.