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- 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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11 min - Can 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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12 min - Do 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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12 min - Who 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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11 min - Do wellbeing metrics miss the person? Plus: Māori resilience
Across 57 qualified papers, the episode tracks a shift from easy-to-count indicators toward context, culture, equity, and workplace strain.
Covers 2026-06-18 to 2026-06-25; 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 2026-06-18 – 2026-06-25.
Top papers
- Measuring scientific coherence between global neglected tropical disease research and population health indicators: a 25-year meta-research study
- Spatiotemporal Variations in Warm Season Heat Extremes in the Midwestern United States, 1959-2020
- From compliance to cultural continuity: Māori non-profit resilience as an exemplar for global reporting
- Voices of the Wetland: Documenting Indigenous Knowledge and Practices for Sustainable Management in Kingwal, Kenya
- Governing teacher well-being in international policy discourse: Problem representation, accountability, and the individualisation of care
Themes: mental health, student wellbeing, accountability, workplace safety, higher education, workplace wellbeing, safety culture, environmental impact
Methods: qualitative, quantitative, case-study, survey, RCT, pilot study
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12 min - Can square-root welfare and hypnodensity sleep reveal blind spots?
New work asks whether wellbeing indicators capture lived reality, from a UK public preference for prioritizing the least satisfied to PPG hypnodensities tied more closely to fatigue and sleepiness.
Covers 2026-06-11 to 2026-06-18; 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 2026-06-11 – 2026-06-18.
Top papers
- Assessing and Improving Access to Health and Social Care Services for Children Rendered Vulnerable by Abuse: Protocol for a Cross-Sectoral Longitudinal, Mixed Methods, Multi-Country Study Using Nationwide Data in Europe
- From fragmented risk communication to climate-mental health resilience: A syndemic preparedness framework for climate change, mental health and health misinformation
- What is the public's social welfare function?
- From pilot to region-wide impact: study protocol for an implementation study and randomised controlled trial of the LEX LOTSEN OWL Care and Case Management System
- From institutional strategies to relational wellbeing: how implementation quality shapes psychological safety in schools
Themes: physical activity, public health, older adults, mental health, machine learning, mindfulness, education, injury prevention
Methods: quantitative, qualitative, survey, case-study, mixed-methods, observational study
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12 min - Do DALYs Mislead LMICs? Plus: Indigenous Wellbeing Frameworks
Wellbeing measures are treated less like neutral scorecards this week and more like tools that shift funding, authority, care, and whose lives count.
Covers 2026-06-04 to 2026-06-11; 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 2026-06-04 – 2026-06-11.
Top papers
- Escaping the metric-driven governance trap in global health: how DALYs and coverage indicators mislead policymakers in LMICs
- Street view-based exposure to greenspace and mortality: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
- To What Extent Do Australian Government Metrics Align With Indigenous and Non‐Indigenous Conceptualisations of Wellbeing? A Scoping Review of Wellbeing Frameworks
- Digital biomarkers in chronic disease management: a systematic review of personalization and ethical challenges.
- HamCat: Ego‐Centric Relationship Exploration for Multidimensional Categorical Data
Themes: Type 2 Diabetes, continuous glucose monitoring, diabetes management, mental health, Continuous Glucose Monitoring, type 1 diabetes, machine learning, digital health
Methods: survey, longitudinal, qualitative, machine learning, cross-sectional, observational study
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