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- 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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12 min - England 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
EUMember 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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12 min - Can 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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12 min - Ahtna 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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12 min - Do 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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