This Week In Wellbeing Measurement

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 res...

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...

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,...

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 alter...

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 heal...

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 resilien...

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 resilien...

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 Met...

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 health...