This Week In Wellbeing Measurement

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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.

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#14
August 22 · 11 min
Is screen time too crude? Plus: campus rankings that change behavior
Digital exposure, campus rankings, hospital stays, and family scales show how wellbeing measures can miss, reveal, or redirect what matters.
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#13
August 13 · 11 min
England Loneliness Maps + Caribbean Smallness: Whose Wellbeing Counts?
This week tracks how England loneliness maps, Caribbean counter-metrics, care-home decarbonisation, and 15-minute-city tools decide whose context becomes visible.
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#12
August 7 · 11 min
Can MPI and obstetric calculators mislead? Plus: patient voice as data
This week follows how poverty indices, maternal prediction tools, PROMs, and caregiver measures reshape what systems see and act on.
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#12
August 3 · 11 min
Ahtna Wildfire Values + Wearable Hardship Gradients
This week tracks wellbeing measures that become useful when communities define values, proxies are validated, and access gaps are made visible.
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#11
July 23 · 10 min
Do Metrics Fit First Nations Children? Plus: Cultural Food Security
This week asks when standard wellbeing tools miss culture, care, workplaces, and ecosystems, anchored by First Nations child measures and cultural food security indicators.
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#10
July 19 · 11 min
Can One Score Capture Wellbeing? Plus: Ocean Access and PROM-OPAC
This week asks when single wellbeing scores clarify trade-offs, and when access, frailty, cognition, and place decide who gets counted.
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#9
July 10 · 11 min
Do wellbeing dashboards change care? Plus: perinatal mental health
This week tracks how wellbeing indicators move from counts to choices, from perinatal mental health monitoring to digital health governance and watershed scores.
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#8
July 2 · 10 min
Who Defines Success? Plus: REvIEW and Zimbabwe’s ZCS scale
This week asks whose wellbeing counts, from climate project indicators to extreme-weather impacts and culturally grounded tools for adolescents with HIV.
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#7
June 25 · 11 min
Do wellbeing metrics miss the person? Plus: Māori resilience
This week asks when indicators illuminate lived wellbeing and when they flatten teacher care, Indigenous resilience, digital access, and social integration.
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#6
June 20 · 11 min
Can square-root welfare and hypnodensity sleep reveal blind spots?
This week links UK wellbeing inequality weights, fingertip sleep signals, MS smartwatches, and school implementation quality to what standard indicators miss.
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#5
June 11 · 11 min
Do DALYs Mislead LMICs? Plus: Indigenous Wellbeing Frameworks
This week asks how DALYs, government frameworks, and digital biomarkers can redirect wellbeing priorities when context is missing.
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#4
June 4 · 11 min
What Do Hypertension Incentives Change? Plus: Dutch Broad Wellbeing
Wellbeing scorecards steer clinical choices, development finance, policy expertise, and patient voices rather than merely recording outcomes.
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#3
May 30 · 12 min
Is screen time the wrong metric? Plus: PM2.5 dose
This week asks when familiar proxies fail, from children’s screen time to commuter PM2.5 concentration and neighbourhood proximity.
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#2
May 21 · 7 min
Mental Health, Machine Learning, Social Media, Higher Education, Quality Of Life
Featuring "Desenvolvimento além do crescimento: limites dos indicadores econômicos tradicionais e a necessidade de métricas socioambientais nas políticas públicas." · 5 top papers
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May 14 · 8 min
mental health, public health, machine learning, wellbeing, quality of life
Featuring "Age-friendliness of a provincial city: Results from the validation of the AFCCQ for use in a New Zealand context" · 5 top papers
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