This Week In Wellbeing Measurement

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

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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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

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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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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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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