{"id":20747,"date":"2023-05-02T08:28:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T22:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/?p=20747"},"modified":"2023-05-02T08:28:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T22:58:53","slug":"sleep-health-gets-examined-by-visiting-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/2023\/05\/02\/sleep-health-gets-examined-by-visiting-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep health gets examined by visiting MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sleep Health team at the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI) recently hosted a tour of its state-of-the-art-centre for Federal Member for Boothby Louise Miller-Frost.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20749\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20749\" style=\"width: 333px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20749\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/04\/MP-visit-Sleep-Health-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/04\/MP-visit-Sleep-Health-2.jpg 451w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/04\/MP-visit-Sleep-Health-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20749\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louise Miller-Frost MP with Associate Professors Nicole Lovato, Andrew Vakulin and Amy Reynolds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During the tour, Ms Miller-Frost learned about the major impact that inadequate and disrupted sleep can have on the health and wellbeing of four-out-of-10 Australians estimated to have sleep problems.<\/p>\n<p>The Sleep Health team also spoke with the MP about findings from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/Parliamentary_Business\/Committees\/House\/Health_Aged_Care_and_Sport\/SleepHealthAwareness\/Report\">2019 National Parliamentary Inquiry into Sleep Health Awareness<\/a> and the need to action recommendations in the report to reduce the substantial health, safety and economic consequences of untreated sleep disorders in our community.<\/p>\n<p>Like many medical conditions, sleep problems disproportionally impact the most vulnerable in our community, and are often under-diagnosed. It is estimated that more than 80% of the 1.5 million adults in Australia have clinical sleep disorders that remain undiagnosed, and access to diagnosis and care remains a major barrier facing many people.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond these concerning health and safety consequences, inadequate sleep is estimated to cost the Australian economy $66 billion per year.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/health-medical-research-institute\/clinical-translation\/sleep-health\">Sleep Health Research Group<\/a>, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/people\/danny.eckert\">Professor Danny Eckert<\/a>, is currently investigating new approaches to cost- effective and accurate diagnosis of sleep disorders such as sleep apnoea, and the delivery of new targeted therapy approaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sleep Health team at the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI) recently hosted a tour of its state-of-the-art-centre for Federal Member for Boothby Louise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4182,"featured_media":20753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7560,39009],"tags":[53363,15550,53362,15549,53364],"class_list":["post-20747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-of-medicine-and-public-health","category-flinders-health-and-medical-research-institute","tag-federal-member-for-boothby","tag-flinders-health-and-medical-research-institute","tag-louise-miller-frost","tag-professor-danny-eckert","tag-sleep-health-research-group"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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