SLEEP 2024 On-Demand - Postgraduate Course, C-08

C-08: PedSleep 2024 Next Level: Climate Change, Exposome, and Diversity Impact on Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Children (On-Demand Access Until 4/30/2025)

This course will review the latest research and understanding of climate change, environmental exposures and health inequities on sleep duration, quality, breathing, sleep disorders, and circadian rhythms in fetus, infants, children, and adolescents. It is important to understand how these unrecognized, unaddressed, and untreated reduce the likelihood of optimizing sleep and treating sleep disorders among them. Evaluation and treatment of the negative effects of environment, climate change, and health disparities take sleep medicine to a crucial new much needed level.

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• Understand air pollution, climate change, and the environmental exposome negatively impact on sleep and circadian rhythms in fetus, infants, children, and adolescents;
• Realize how neighborhood and green spaces affect sleep, circadian rhythm and obesity risk in children and adolescents.
  Appreciate how health inequities in children contribute to sleep disordered breathing, obesity, food insecurity and poor health outcomes across the lifespan;
• Know how bedroom temperature, air quality, particulate matter and pollutant exposure affect sleep and breathing in infants, children, and adolescents; and
• Learn interventions to address racial/ethnic sleep disparities across the life course using an exposome approach.

Course Chair: Madeleine Grigg-Damberger, MD

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