Can EQ-5D-5L screen anxiety? Plus: sugar as an obesity proxy

This Week In Wellbeing Measurement · Sep 3, 2026 · 11m · transcript

PROMs, asthma outcomes, public-health datasets, wearables, and sugar availability all point to the same problem: convenient metrics can miss the realities they are meant to track.

Covers 2026-08-27 to 2026-09-03; 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 2026-08-27 – 2026-09-03.

Top papers

Comparative performance of the EQ-5D-5L, EQ-HWB, and PROMIS-10 in screening for history…