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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June 25, 2026Do 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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June 20, 2026Can 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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June 11, 2026Do 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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June 04, 2026What Do Hypertension Incentives Change? Plus: Dutch Broad Wellbeing
This week asks how wellbeing measures become governance tools, from physician-facing blood pressure incentives to Dutch Broad Wellbeing and equity scoring in community oncology.
Covers 2026-05-28 to 2026-06-04; 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 2026-05-28 – 2026-06-04.
Top papers
Impact measurement and management as governance infrastructure in development finance: Catalytic or extractive?
Evaluating the Consequences of a Hypertension Management Incentive
Explainable artificial intelligence techniques for measuring social value: a systematic review of machine learning methods
Into the headwinds: key emotional intelligence capacities that predict women's workplace wellbeing across job roles
Politicizing Expertise for Dutch Broad Wellbeing: Knowledge Accountability for Transformative Change
Themes: mental health, quality of life, patient-reported outcomes, breast cancer, wellbeing, physical activity, cancer care, employee engagement
Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, longitudinal, systematic review, RCT
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May 30, 2026Is screen time the wrong metric? Plus: PM2.5 dose
Wellbeing measurement gets practical as new work swaps blunt proxies for mechanisms: screen interaction, inhaled PM2.5 dose, neighbourhood satisfaction, and metric architecture.
Covers 2026-05-21 to 2026-05-28; 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 2026-05-21 – 2026-05-28.
Top papers
Screen Interaction, Not Screen Time: Multidimensional Framework, Global Policy Evidence, and Clinical Recommendations for Children with Screen Addiction and Screen Trauma
Comparative Analysis of Additive and Multiplicative BoD Models in Healthcare Performance Evaluation
Public Value Under Constraint: Fiscal Austerity and the Conversion of Education Policy into Social Well-Being in Brazil
Bridging Global Sustainability Objectives With Corporate Reporting Standards: Sustainable Development Goals Meet European Sustainability Reporting Standards
From Nonfinancial Reporting to Management Control: A
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‐Based Sustainability Balanced Scorecard
Themes: wellbeing, mental health, occupational health, public health, burnout, transdisciplinary research, education, psychometrics
Methods: qualitative, survey, quantitative, case-study, systematic review, bibliometric analysis
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May 21, 2026Mental Health, Machine Learning, Social Media, Higher Education, Quality Of Life
Research papers related to the ISQOLS SIG "Measurement And Metrics"
Episode covers 2026-05-14 – 2026-05-21.
Top papers
Desenvolvimento além do crescimento: limites dos indicadores econômicos tradicionais e a necessidade de métricas socioambientais nas políticas públicas.
Italian regional variation in amenable mortality 2015/2019: impact of outsourcing, expenditures and socio-economic variables
Metrics for Adaptation and Resilience Risks for Non-Domestic Buildings: How Many People in Great Britain Will Be Affected by Flooding and Overheating Risks?
Regional Inequalities and the Plea for Universalism: Evidence from the Finnish UBI Experiment
Pollution to prevention: digital decision support for air pollution and exercise counselling in general practice
Themes: mental health, machine learning, wellbeing, higher education, social media, sustainability, mindfulness, quality of life
Methods: qualitative, quantitative, survey, case-study, machine learning, mixed-methods
In the news
ssrs.com — Americans' views of China have grown somewhat more positive in ...
jmir.org — Health Information Adoption Among Patients With Chronic Disease ...
commonwealthfund.org — China - Commonwealth Fund
en.wikipedia.org — The Epoch Times - Wikipedia
pressgazette.co.uk — Most popular websites for news in the world: Monthly top 50 listing
commonwealthfund.org — India | Commonwealth Fund
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May 14, 2026mental health, public health, machine learning, wellbeing, quality of life
Research papers related to the ISQOLS SIG "Measurement And Metrics"
Episode covers 2026-05-07 – 2026-05-14.
Top papers
Age-friendliness of a provincial city: Results from the validation of the AFCCQ for use in a New Zealand context
Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS): Development and psychometric assessment of a face-to-face survey module
Keeping Older people healthy, deSigning and evaluating effective HEalth Services to maintain functional AbIlity (KOSHESAI); study protocol for a multimethod, prospective, hybrid implementation-effectiveness study
Teacher wellbeing in schools: a systematic review of job demands and job resources
Health Data Literacy in Canada: The Missing Metric in a Data-Rich Era
Themes: mental health, public health, machine learning, wellbeing, quality of life, older adults, depression, sustainable development
Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, machine learning, RCT, systematic review
In the news
signal49.ca — Why We Need to Rebuild Work Around Wellbeing
deel.com — 9 Performance Management Trends and How They'll Boost ... - Deel
globalwellnesssummit.com — Neurowellness––One of the Biggest Wellness Trends of 2026
globalwellnessinstitute.org — Music for Health and Wellbeing Initiative Trends for 2026
shorensteincenter.org — Redefining Local: How Young Americans Engage with Television ...
huntington-careers.com — Total Rewards Program Manager | Columbus, OH | Huntington
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