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- K6 in Sweden + Standby Time: Which Wellbeing Signals Become Actionable?
From Sweden’s K6 validation to psychological standby time and Portugal’s medicine expenditure gap, the episode asks which wellbeing signals become actionable.
Covers 2026-10-22 to 2026-10-29; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.
What counts as progress, and who gets counted? Explore the tools, tradeoffs, and evidence behind wellbeing metrics, from GDP alternatives and resilience indicators to mental health, aging, climate, and care.
Episode covers 2026-10-22 – 2026-10-29.
Top papers
- MINTAQAVIY IQTISODIY SALOHIYATNI BAHOLASHNING INTEGRAL INDIKATORLAR TIZIMINI TAKOMILLASHTIRISH
- Navigating Complexity Through Mixed Methods Research: Insights from a Large-Scale Interdisciplinary Environmental Study of Biodiversity and Human Wellbeing
- Time held in reserve: psychological standby time and the link between digital availability and employee wellbeing
- A macro-model for smart city development using citizens’ perspective: evidence from Indian smart cities
- From catastrophic health expenditures to the cost of unmet needs: New metrics for pharmaceutical access in vulnerable populations.
Themes: mental health, wellbeing, machine learning, depression, public health, psychological distress, mental wellbeing, young adults
Methods: survey, cross-sectional, qualitative, quantitative, longitudinal, systematic review
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11 min - Beyond GDP? Plus: thermal well-being and LLM stress metrics
From Beyond GDP debates to Shenzhen wetland heat perception and LLM-derived daily stress scores, this episode asks when wellbeing metrics become fit for policy, care, and design.
Covers 2026-10-15 to 2026-10-22; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.
What counts as progress, and who gets counted? Explore the tools, tradeoffs, and evidence behind wellbeing metrics, from GDP alternatives and resilience indicators to mental health, aging, climate, and care.
Episode covers 2026-10-15 – 2026-10-22.
Top papers
- Respectful Maternity Care Measurement: Two Indices
- A Review of Beyond GDP: History, Barriers, Opportunities, and Cautions
- Time to Measure the Outcomes of What Nurses Really Do.
- Metric Selection Framework: A Method for Optimizing Multidimensional Value Assessment of Resource Recovery Systems
- A Quality Improvement Initiative to Achieve Provincial Implementation of a Web-Based Family Satisfaction in ICU (FS-ICU) Survey to Inform Patient-Centered Care.
Themes: mental health, psychological wellbeing, wellbeing, burnout, public health, physical activity, psychometrics, adolescents
Methods: survey, qualitative, cross-sectional, quantitative, cross-sectional study, case-study
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11 min - Food equity dashboards + billable hours: when metrics govern us
New work shows wellbeing measures moving into dashboards, workplaces, neighborhoods, and landscapes, where they can reveal inequity but also steer behavior.
Covers 2026-10-08 to 2026-10-15; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.
What counts as progress, and who gets counted? Explore the tools, tradeoffs, and evidence behind wellbeing metrics, from GDP alternatives and resilience indicators to mental health, aging, climate, and care.
Episode covers 2026-10-08 – 2026-10-15.
Top papers
- Making inequities visible: a call for participatory food system dashboards for SDG monitoring
- What Gets Measured, Gets Managed: Guidance for Recovery Measurement in Addiction Recovery Science.
- Perceived Stress, Burnout, and Training-Related Strain among Medical Interns in Chhattisgarh: A Statewide Analytical Study
- Longitudinal patterns of heterogeneous neighborhood collective efficacy and child maltreatment.
- Developmental Trajectories of Alcohol, Mental Health and Physical Health among American Indian and First Nation Adolescents: Understanding the Role of Land-Based Cultural Engagement, Family, and Peers.
Themes: mental health, wellbeing, sustainability, psychological wellbeing, machine learning, student wellbeing, autism, AI
Methods: qualitative, survey, quantitative, cross-sectional, longitudinal, mixed-methods
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12 min - Can Life’s Essential 10 predict healthspan? Plus: flood wellbeing
This week’s papers turn wellbeing into sharper instruments, from Life’s Essential 10 and flood-related discourse to loneliness, unemployment, and household time allocation.
Covers 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-08; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.
What counts as progress, and who gets counted? Explore the tools, tradeoffs, and evidence behind wellbeing metrics, from GDP alternatives and resilience indicators to mental health, aging, climate, and care.
Episode covers 2026-10-01 – 2026-10-08.
Top papers
- A population-level assessment framework for flood-related wellbeing from public discourse in Ireland
- Associations of Life's Essential 10 with Mortality and Healthspan Free of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer: Findings in Two Nationwide Cohorts.
- Factors associated with loneliness and social capital in a large volunteer sample of adults in England
- Neighbourhood and school predictors of adolescent internalising symptoms and wellbeing: a scoping review
- 10 Years of BRAVE Self-Help Service Delivery for Child and Adolescent Anxiety in Australia: Open Effectiveness-Implementation Trial.
Themes: wellbeing, mental health, emotion regulation, older adults, digital wellbeing, gender differences, elderly care, higher education
Methods: qualitative, survey, quantitative, cross-sectional, RCT, longitudinal
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13 min - Blue Well-being Index climate losses + T-Index travel gains
Wellbeing measures look sharper when they test lived access, durability, sustainability, and routine signals rather than counting only what is easy to observe.
Covers 2026-09-24 to 2026-10-01; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.
What counts as progress, and who gets counted? Explore the tools, tradeoffs, and evidence behind wellbeing metrics, from GDP alternatives and resilience indicators to mental health, aging, climate, and care.
Episode covers 2026-09-24 – 2026-10-01.
Top papers
- Frameworks and methodologies for food policy evaluation: a systematic review of the peer-reviewed literature (2015–2026)
- Climate change is projected to widen global inequalities in ocean-derived wellbeing
- Experiencing medical desertification: A care-seeker-centered qualitative comparison across rural and urban sites in France and Slovenia.
- Social Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP) Indicators: Do They Matter?
- The Power of Data: Assessing Primary Care Performance Using Routinely Collected Emergency Department Data
Themes: mental health, wellbeing, psychological wellbeing, sustainability, public health, loneliness, adolescents, older adults
Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, cross-sectional, case-study, systematic review
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11 min - Can Dashboards Catch What Single Scores Miss? Plus: Digital Harms
New work from Uzbekistan inequality to European nature futures asks whether richer dashboards reveal burdens, risks, and trade-offs that single wellbeing scores miss.
Covers 2026-09-17 to 2026-09-24; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.
What counts as progress, and who gets counted? Explore the tools, tradeoffs, and evidence behind wellbeing metrics, from GDP alternatives and resilience indicators to mental health, aging, climate, and care.
Episode covers 2026-09-17 – 2026-09-24.
Top papers
- Toward a multidimensional fitness paradigm: a critical review and agenda for science, practice, and policy
- Multidimensional Inequality in Uzbekistan
- Systems Thinking for Global Health: How Planetary Health and the Wellbeing Economy Can Restore the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’ Transformative Potential
- Intent to impact: United States case studies on equity measurement in energy efficiency programming
- ESG PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND REPORTING FRAMEWORK FOR OIL AND GAS ORGANIZATIONS: A COMPREHENSIVE KPI CALCULATION MODEL
Themes: wellbeing, wearable technology, mental health, student wellbeing, burnout, life satisfaction, psychometrics, patient-reported outcomes
Methods: survey, cross-sectional, qualitative, quantitative, longitudinal, case-study
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11 min - Measuring What Matters? Plus: SWEMWBS and Nature-Based Therapy
Across 95 qualified entries, the episode follows a tension between what institutions can count and what wellbeing frameworks, homes, clinics, and environments need to reflect.
Covers 2026-09-10 to 2026-09-17; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.
What counts as progress, and who gets counted? Explore the tools, tradeoffs, and evidence behind wellbeing metrics, from GDP alternatives and resilience indicators to mental health, aging, climate, and care.
Episode covers 2026-09-10 – 2026-09-17.
Top papers
- Measuring What Matters - or What Can Be Measured? Social Impact as Sensemaking
- Smart Cities, Artificial Intelligence, and Territorial Justice
- Evaluating seven nature-based therapy interventions to reduce stress in at-risk adults: protocol for a multicentre experimental study across four European countries (GreenME Project)
- Residential Crowding and Mental Health in Built Residential Environments: A Systematic Review of Evidence, Environmental-Psychological Mechanisms, and Design Implications
- First application of the conservation and human use index (CHUI) for the evaluation of coastal social-ecological conditions across ten european case studies
Themes: mental health, wellbeing, physical activity, adolescents, burnout, leadership, university students, women's health
Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, cross-sectional, longitudinal, RCT
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11 min - Do Flood Metrics Disagree? Plus: Cool Roofs and Clinician Alerts
From Nigeria’s 2012 floods to cool roofs and anesthesia alerts, the episode follows cases where wellbeing depends on the lens used before decisions are made.
Covers 2026-09-03 to 2026-09-10; 5 free papers from 11 selected papers.
What counts as progress, and who gets counted? Explore the tools, tradeoffs, and evidence behind wellbeing metrics, from GDP alternatives and resilience indicators to mental health, aging, climate, and care.
Episode covers 2026-09-03 – 2026-09-10.
Top papers
- A systematic review of frameworks for evaluating social equity in the food rescue program
- Measuring Exposure and Vulnerability to Nigeria’s 2012 Floods: Views from the Ground and Views from the Sky
- 'In Every River, in Every Lake': Impacts of Beaver Population Change on Indigenous Livelihoods and Wellbeing in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Western Canadian Arctic
- Assessing the Impact of Cool Roofs on Health and Wellbeing: A Scoping Review
- A quadruple bottom line sustainability assessment of the energy water waste nexus in Egyptian irrigated agriculture
Themes: technology fatigue, cognitive load, clinician well-being, anesthesia practice, patient safety, cool roofs, health and wellbeing, urban heat island
Methods: qualitative, scoping review, modeling study, narrative review, real-world outcomes, randomized controlled trials
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12 min - Can EQ-5D-5L screen anxiety? Plus: sugar as an obesity proxy
PROMs, asthma outcomes, public-health datasets, wearables, and sugar availability all point to the same problem: convenient metrics can miss the realities they are meant to track.
Covers 2026-08-27 to 2026-09-03; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.
What counts as progress, and who gets counted? Explore the tools, tradeoffs, and evidence behind wellbeing metrics, from GDP alternatives and resilience indicators to mental health, aging, climate, and care.
Episode covers 2026-08-27 – 2026-09-03.
Top papers
- Comparative performance of the EQ-5D-5L, EQ-HWB, and PROMIS-10 in screening for history of anxiety and depression in the general adult population in 15 countries
- Quality Assessment of Public Health Datasets and Their Alignment With the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) Data Elements.
- Retirement, Economic Vulnerability, and Subjective Wellbeing: A 13-Year Panel Study from the UK
- Food Inadequacy, Economic Vulnerability and Wellbeing in Fragile West African Countries: Evidence from Panel AMG and CCEMG Estimation Techniques
- Digital Biomarkers and Wearable Bioelectronics Across Neurological, Cardiopulmonary, and Mental Health Conditions: Clinical Evidence and Barriers to Adoption
Themes: mental health, quality of life, depression, patient-reported outcomes, wellbeing, anxiety, older adults, subjective well-being
Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, cross-sectional, comparative analysis
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12 min - Is screen time too crude? Plus: campus rankings that change behavior
This week tracks measures that do more than describe wellbeing, from digital exposure proxies to university sustainability rankings and hospital stays.
Covers 2026-08-13 to 2026-08-20; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.
What counts as progress, and who gets counted? Explore the tools, tradeoffs, and evidence behind wellbeing metrics, from GDP alternatives and resilience indicators to mental health, aging, climate, and care.
Episode covers 2026-08-13 – 2026-08-20.
Top papers
- Comparative analysis of social sustainability assessment indicators: a structured coverage analysis of neighborhood-level tools
- Assessing the Reliability and Validity of the Catalight Family Wellbeing Scale in a Turkish Sample
- Multidimensional Performance Measurement Based on Social Return on Investment (SROI) in Sustainable Spring Management Systems
- From screen time to cyberdiseases: a systematic scoping review of health outcomes from digital technology exposure, 2019–2024
- Factors Influencing the Variation in HDI scores across Different Districts of West Bengal
Themes: mental health, older adults, mental wellbeing, sustainability, quality of life, psychological wellbeing, public health, burnout
Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, cross-sectional, case-study, longitudinal
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