This Week In Wellbeing Measurement

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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, an... more

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September 10, 2026Do 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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September 03, 2026Can 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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August 22, 2026Is 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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August 13, 2026England Loneliness Maps + Caribbean Smallness: Whose Wellbeing Counts?
Across 96 qualifying entries, wellbeing scores depend on choices about place, culture, care settings, and which tradeoffs measurement systems surface.
Covers 2026-08-06 to 2026-08-13; 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 2026-08-06 – 2026-08-13.
Top papers
Measuring loneliness at a national scale: The measuring loneliness in England (INTERACT) study’s approach and initial findings
Toward a Unified Framework for Climate and Health Research: Gaps in Exposure Metrics and Health Outcomes.
The Coloniality of Measurement and the Making of Smallness as Deficit
Spatial Dynamics of Tourism Sustainability in
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Member States
Exploration of visual analogue scale versions with the EQ-HWB-9 to measure health, social care, and carer-related quality of life: a VASt landscape
Themes: mental health, wellbeing, older adults, anxiety, employee wellbeing, public health, Continuous Glucose Monitoring, sleep quality
Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, cross-sectional, RCT, systematic review
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August 07, 2026Can MPI and obstetric calculators mislead? Plus: patient voice as data
From Sub-Saharan MPI gaps to obstetric prediction tools, the episode asks when indicators clarify wellbeing and when they hide local deprivation, bias, or family burden.
Covers 2026-07-30 to 2026-08-06; 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 2026-07-30 – 2026-08-06.
Top papers
GLOBAL POVERTY METRICS AND THE PROBLEM OF MISSING CONTEXT
Differences in health outcomes of orthopedic rehabilitation after hip or knee replacement: a prospective pilot study benchmarking 23 rehabilitation facilities using Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)
Advancing the measurement of caregiver impact: Data collection priorities aligned with caregiver, health technology assessment, and policy stakeholders.
Predictive tools in maternal health: Making futures for patients and populations
Measurement of Human Flourishing Constructs in Evaluation of Voluntary Family Planning Interventions: A Modified Scoping Review of the Literature
Themes: mental health, psychometrics, public health, psychological wellbeing, older adults, quality of life, COVID-19, sustainability
Methods: survey, qualitative, cross-sectional, quantitative, systematic review, longitudinal
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August 03, 2026Ahtna Wildfire Values + Wearable Hardship Gradients
From Ahtna wildfire resilience indicators to state-level wearable heart-rate signals, the episode asks when metrics are decision-ready and when they hide equity gaps.
Covers 2026-07-23 to 2026-07-30; 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 2026-07-23 – 2026-07-30.
Top papers
Developing community-defined indicators of Indigenous health: Practical guidance from the Ahtna approach to wildfire resilience
Establishing an air quality index based on proxy data for urban planning: Finalization, validation and application to a case study.
Passive wearable physiology tracks a state-level material-hardship gradient in resting heart rate
A conceptual framework for measuring AI health equity
THE CONSUMPTION RIGIDITY INDEX: STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINTS ON HOUSEHOLD BUDGETS IN A CROSS-COUNTRY PERSPECTIVE
Themes: mental health, machine learning, wellbeing, quality of life, cognitive impairment, public policy, predictive modeling, employee wellbeing
Methods: qualitative, survey, cross-sectional, quantitative, case-study, systematic review
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July 23, 2026Do Metrics Fit First Nations Children? Plus: Cultural Food Security
Across 107 qualified items, the through-line is that wellbeing measures can fail when they ignore the people, place, purpose, and power relationship behind the data.
Covers 2026-07-16 to 2026-07-23; 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 2026-07-16 – 2026-07-23.
Top papers
Measurement of social and emotional wellbeing and mental health outcomes in first nations children: A systematic review
Covid-19 related excess mortality: An analysis by age for selected countries
Managing Social Impact: An Integrated Approach and Research Agenda
The costs of caring: understanding the lived experience of unpaid caregiving and risks to financial wellbeing
Beyond conventional metrics: a scoping review of cultural food security definitions and indicators for migrant populations
Themes: mental health, machine learning, wellbeing, public health, depression, children, psychometrics, well-being
Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, systematic review, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis
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July 19, 2026Can One Score Capture Wellbeing? Plus: Ocean Access and PROM-OPAC
Composite indices, ocean access surveys, and PROM-OPAC feasibility work show wellbeing measurement turning on aggregation choices, structural barriers, and representation.
Covers 2026-07-09 to 2026-07-16; 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 2026-07-09 – 2026-07-16.
Top papers
A Comparative Review of Methods to Create a Composite Index for Sustainable and Inclusive Wellbeing
Racial and economic disparities in coastal access and engagement mediate the ocean’s contribution to human wellbeing
Feasibility of administering the Patient-Reported Outcome Measure for Older People living with frailty receiving Acute Care (PROM-OPAC) in older people with cognitive impairment.
A Quantitative Approach for Assessing and Monitoring the Social Licence of Forestry to Operate: A New Zealand Case Study
A Micro-Scale Walkability Metric for Pleasant Pedestrian Route Planning
Themes: mental health, wellbeing, physical activity, sustainability, adolescents, higher education, psychometrics, public health
Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, case-study, cross-sectional, longitudinal
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July 10, 2026Do wellbeing dashboards change care? Plus: perinatal mental health
New papers show that indicators can steer resource allocation, clinical relationships, public accountability, and local priorities, while missing trust, equity, and lived experience.
Covers 2026-07-02 to 2026-07-09; 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 2026-07-02 – 2026-07-09.
Top papers
DIGITAL INDICATORS AND MANAGERIAL RATIONALITIES IN HEALTH SYSTEMS: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF GOVERNANCE, DECISION-MAKING, AND THE ORGANIZATION OF CARE UNDER LEGAL-INSTITUTIONAL, SOCIOECONOMIC, AND MANAGERIAL PERSPECTIVES
No maternal health without perinatal mental health: a framework for standardized indicators
COMBINA: The EAAD four-level approach for depression and suicide prevention and wellbeing promotion in the community and vulnerable populations. A cross-country study protocol from the MENTBEST project
Assessing urban watershed sustainability in the Rio Blanco basin (Mexico) using the HELP—WSI framework
Trends in anxiety and depressive symptoms among adults in Norway based on eight population-based surveys from 1995 to 2024.
Themes: mental health, public health, physical activity, employee wellbeing, social media, quality of life, wellbeing, psychometrics
Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, longitudinal, cross-sectional, scoping review
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July 02, 2026Who Defines Success? Plus: REvIEW and Zimbabwe’s ZCS scale
Wellbeing metrics look different when communities, crisis counts, climate exposure, and Zimbabwean adolescents with HIV are allowed to shape what gets measured.
Covers 2026-06-25 to 2026-07-02; 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 2026-06-25 – 2026-07-02.
Top papers
Community versus donor and implementer-defined success metrics in climate mitigation and adaptation projects: A systematic literature review of what matters
Mental health of healthcare workers in England during the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic: The NHS CHECK study cohort.
Abandonment or overreach: the ethical failures of health and social systems and the need for contributory reciprocity
Rating Evaluation - Impacts of extreme weather (REvIEW): A quantitative measure of the impacts of exposure to extreme weather events
Numbers that count: public accountability during crises
Themes: mental health, wellbeing, psychological wellbeing, biomarkers, resilience, quality of life, psychological resilience, COVID-19
Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, cross-sectional, case-study, longitudinal
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The podcast currently has 17 episodes available.