This Week In Wellbeing Measurement

New work shows wellbeing measures moving into dashboards, workplaces, neighborhoods, and landscapes, where they can reveal inequity but also steer behavior. Covers 2026-10-08 to 2026-10-15; 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 2026-10-08 – 2026-10-15. Top papers Making inequities visible: a call for participatory food system dashboards for SDG monitoring What Gets Measured, Gets Managed: Guidance for Recovery Measurement in Addiction Recovery Science. Perceived Stress, Burnout, and Training-Related Strain among Medical Interns in Chhattisgarh: A Statewide Analytical Study Longitudinal patterns of heterogeneous neighborhood collective efficacy and child maltreatment. Developmental Trajectories of Alcohol, Mental Health and Physical Health among American Indian and First Nation Adolescents: Understanding the Role of Land-Based Cultural Engagement, Family, and Peers. Themes: mental health, wellbeing, sustainability, psychological wellbeing, machine learning, student wellbeing, autism, AI Methods: qualitative, survey, quantitative, cross-sectional, longitudinal, mixed-methods Premium NewsPremium also covers 10 related news stories, including ua.news — Mexico presents six well-being reports — Mexico News Daily, economy.ac — Workplace Flexibility and the Return-to-Office Reversal for American Mothers, and legalserviceindia.com — Google €403 Million GDPR Fine: Ireland DPC Ruling on Location Data Explained. Upgrade to PremiumThe premium version of this podcast covers all 40 research articles and 10 news stories selected for the episode. Subscribe to the premium podcast. Generated by paperboy.fm.

This week’s papers turn wellbeing into sharper instruments, from Life’s Essential 10 and flood-related discourse to loneliness, unemployment, and household time allocation. Covers 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-08; 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 2026-10-01 – 2026-10-08. Top papers A population-level assessment framework for flood-related wellbeing from public discourse in Ireland Associations of Life's Essential 10 with Mortality and Healthspan Free of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer: Findings in Two Nationwide Cohorts. Factors associated with loneliness and social capital in a large volunteer sample of adults in England Neighbourhood and school predictors of adolescent internalising symptoms and wellbeing: a scoping review 10 Years of BRAVE Self-Help Service Delivery for Child and Adolescent Anxiety in Australia: Open Effectiveness-Implementation Trial. Themes: wellbeing, mental health, emotion regulation, older adults, digital wellbeing, gender differences, elderly care, higher education Methods: qualitative, survey, quantitative, cross-sectional, RCT, longitudinal Premium NewsPremium also covers 10 related news stories, including ua.news — Mexico presents six well-being reports — Mexico News Daily, superkalam.com — Atal Vayo Abhyudaya Yojana: Eldercare & Silver Economy, and carbonbrief.org — Daily Briefing: Climate on agenda at UNGA | 'Release' oil reserves. Upgrade to PremiumThe premium version of this podcast covers all 40 research articles and 10 news stories selected for the episode. Subscribe to the premium podcast. Generated by paperboy.fm.

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 Premium NewsPremium also covers 10 related news stories, including ua.news — Mexico presents six well-being reports — Mexico News Daily, wageindicator.org — Living Wage and Mental Health: Understanding the Connection, and sundayguardianlive.com — Trump Plans Child Care Subsidies for Stay-at-Home Parents Using Federal Funds Meant for Working Families; JD Vance Pushes $9,000 Benefit for Married Couples. Upgrade to PremiumThe premium version of this podcast covers all 40 research articles and 10 news stories selected for the episode. Subscribe to the premium podcast. Generated by paperboy.fm.

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 Premium NewsPremium also covers 10 related news stories, including mexicobusiness.news — Mexico Joins PAHO's Regional Mental Health Survey, worldhappiness.foundation — Measuring What Matters? A Critical Review of the World, and news.inbox.lv — Members of the European Parliament call for EU law to ... Upgrade to PremiumThe premium version of this podcast covers all 40 research articles and 10 news stories selected for the episode. Subscribe to the premium podcast. Generated by paperboy.fm.

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 Premium NewsPremium also covers 10 related news stories, including link.springer.com — A comparative “report card” wellbeing assessment of 22 ..., mexicobusiness.news — Mexico Joins PAHO's Regional Mental Health Survey, and kiro7.com — Survey: How health tracking is affecting Americans' sleep and mental health. Upgrade to PremiumThe premium version of this podcast covers all 40 research articles and 10 news stories selected for the episode. Subscribe to the premium podcast. Generated by paperboy.fm.