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This Week In Wellbeing Measurement
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. Subscribe for the premium version of this podcast: https://paperboy.fm/podcasts/measurement-and-metrics/subscribe
Episodes
This Week In Wellbeing MeasurementK6 in Sweden + Standby Time: Which Wellbeing Signals Become Actionable?
From Sweden’s K6 validation to psychological standby time and Portugal’s medicine expenditure gap, the episode asks which wellbeing signals become actionable…
This Week In Wellbeing MeasurementBeyond GDP? Plus: thermal well-being and LLM stress metrics
From Beyond GDP debates to Shenzhen wetland heat perception and LLM-derived daily stress scores, this episode asks when wellbeing metrics become fit for…
This Week In Wellbeing MeasurementFood equity dashboards + billable hours: when metrics govern us
New work shows wellbeing measures moving into dashboards, workplaces, neighborhoods, and landscapes, where they can reveal inequity but also steer behavior…
This Week In Wellbeing MeasurementCan 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…
This Week In Wellbeing MeasurementBlue Well-being Index climate losses + T-Index travel gains
Wellbeing measures look sharper when they test lived access, durability, sustainability, and routine signals rather than counting only what is easy to observe…
This Week In Wellbeing MeasurementCan Dashboards Catch What Single Scores Miss? Plus: Digital Harms
New work from Uzbekistan inequality to European nature futures asks whether richer dashboards reveal burdens, risks, and trade-offs that single wellbeing…
This Week In Wellbeing MeasurementMeasuring What Matters? Plus: SWEMWBS and Nature-Based Therapy
Across 95 qualified entries, the episode follows a tension between what institutions can count and what wellbeing frameworks, homes, clinics, and environments…
This Week In Wellbeing MeasurementDo Flood Metrics Disagree? Plus: Cool Roofs and Clinician Alerts
From Nigeria’s 2012 floods to cool roofs and anesthesia alerts, the episode follows cases where wellbeing depends on the lens used before decisions are made…
This Week In Wellbeing MeasurementCan EQ-5D-5L screen anxiety? Plus: sugar as an obesity proxy
PROMs, asthma outcomes, public-health datasets, wearables, and sugar availability all point to the same problem: convenient metrics can miss the realities they…
This Week In Wellbeing MeasurementIs screen time too crude? Plus: campus rankings that change behavior
This week tracks measures that do more than describe wellbeing, from digital exposure proxies to university sustainability rankings and hospital stays. Covers…
This Week In Wellbeing MeasurementEngland Loneliness Maps + Caribbean Smallness: Whose Wellbeing Counts?
Across 96 qualifying entries, wellbeing scores depend on choices about place, culture, care settings, and which tradeoffs measurement systems surface. Covers…
This Week In Wellbeing MeasurementCan MPI and obstetric calculators mislead? Plus: patient voice as data
From Sub-Saharan MPI gaps to obstetric prediction tools, the episode asks when indicators clarify wellbeing and when they hide local deprivation, bias, or…
This Week In Wellbeing MeasurementAhtna Wildfire Values + Wearable Hardship Gradients
From Ahtna wildfire resilience indicators to state-level wearable heart-rate signals, the episode asks when metrics are decision-ready and when they hide…
This Week In Wellbeing MeasurementDo Metrics Fit First Nations Children? Plus: Cultural Food Security
Across 107 qualified items, the through-line is that wellbeing measures can fail when they ignore the people, place, purpose, and power relationship behind the…
This Week In Wellbeing MeasurementCan One Score Capture Wellbeing? Plus: Ocean Access and PROM-OPAC
Composite indices, ocean access surveys, and PROM-OPAC feasibility work show wellbeing measurement turning on aggregation choices, structural barriers, and…
This Week In Wellbeing MeasurementDo wellbeing dashboards change care? Plus: perinatal mental health
New papers show that indicators can steer resource allocation, clinical relationships, public accountability, and local priorities, while missing trust…
This Week In Wellbeing MeasurementWho Defines Success? Plus: REvIEW and Zimbabwe’s ZCS scale
Wellbeing metrics look different when communities, crisis counts, climate exposure, and Zimbabwean adolescents with HIV are allowed to shape what gets…
This Week In Wellbeing MeasurementDo wellbeing metrics miss the person? Plus: Māori resilience
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…
This Week In Wellbeing MeasurementCan square-root welfare and hypnodensity sleep reveal blind spots?
New work asks whether wellbeing indicators capture lived reality, from a UK public preference for prioritizing the least satisfied to PPG hypnodensities tied…
This Week In Wellbeing MeasurementDo DALYs Mislead LMICs? Plus: Indigenous Wellbeing Frameworks
Wellbeing measures are treated less like neutral scorecards this week and more like tools that shift funding, authority, care, and whose lives count. Covers…
This Week In Wellbeing MeasurementWhat Do Hypertension Incentives Change? Plus: Dutch Broad Wellbeing
This week asks how wellbeing measures become governance tools, from physician-facing blood pressure incentives to Dutch Broad Wellbeing and equity scoring in…
This Week In Wellbeing MeasurementIs screen time the wrong metric? Plus: PM2.5 dose
Wellbeing measurement gets practical as new work swaps blunt proxies for mechanisms: screen interaction, inhaled PM2.5 dose, neighbourhood satisfaction, and…
This Week In Wellbeing MeasurementMental Health, Machine Learning, Social Media, Higher Education, Quality Of Life
Research papers related to the ISQOLS SIG "Measurement And Metrics" Episode covers 2026-05-14 – 2026-05-21. Top papers Desenvolvimento além do crescimento…
This Week In Wellbeing Measurementmental health, public health, machine learning, wellbeing, quality of life
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…