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Can Life’s Essential 10 predict healthspan? Plus: flood wellbeing
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.
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A population-level assessment framework for flood-related wellbeing from public discourse in…
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