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 of anxiety and depression in the general adult population in 15 countries
• Quality Assessment of Public Health Datasets and Their Alignment With the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) Data Elements.
• Retirement, Economic Vulnerability, and Subjective Wellbeing: A 13-Year Panel Study from the UK
• Food Inadequacy, Economic Vulnerability and Wellbeing in Fragile West African Countries: Evidence from Panel AMG and CCEMG Estimation Techniques
• Digital Biomarkers and Wearable Bioelectronics Across Neurological, Cardiopulmonary, and Mental Health Conditions: Clinical Evidence and Barriers to Adoption

Themes: mental health, quality of life, depression, patient-reported outcomes, wellbeing, anxiety, older adults, subjective well-being

Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, cross-sectional, comparative analysis

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Covers 2026-08-13 to 2026-08-20; 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 2026-08-13 – 2026-08-20.

Top papers

• Comparative analysis of social sustainability assessment indicators: a structured coverage analysis of neighborhood-level tools
• Assessing the Reliability and Validity of the Catalight Family Wellbeing Scale in a Turkish Sample
• Multidimensional Performance Measurement Based on Social Return on Investment (SROI) in Sustainable Spring Management Systems
• From screen time to cyberdiseases: a systematic scoping review of health outcomes from digital technology exposure, 2019–2024
• Factors Influencing the Variation in HDI scores across Different Districts of West Bengal

Themes: mental health, older adults, mental wellbeing, sustainability, quality of life, psychological wellbeing, public health, burnout

Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, cross-sectional, case-study, longitudinal

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Covers 2026-08-06 to 2026-08-13; 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 2026-08-06 – 2026-08-13.

Top papers

• Measuring loneliness at a national scale: The measuring loneliness in England (INTERACT) study’s approach and initial findings
• Toward a Unified Framework for Climate and Health Research: Gaps in Exposure Metrics and Health Outcomes.
• The Coloniality of Measurement and the Making of Smallness as Deficit
• Spatial Dynamics of Tourism Sustainability in EU Member States
• Exploration of visual analogue scale versions with the EQ-HWB-9 to measure health, social care, and carer-related quality of life: a VASt landscape

Themes: mental health, wellbeing, older adults, anxiety, employee wellbeing, public health, Continuous Glucose Monitoring, sleep quality

Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, cross-sectional, RCT, systematic review

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Covers 2026-07-30 to 2026-08-06; 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 2026-07-30 – 2026-08-06.

Top papers

• GLOBAL POVERTY METRICS AND THE PROBLEM OF MISSING CONTEXT
• Differences in health outcomes of orthopedic rehabilitation after hip or knee replacement: a prospective pilot study benchmarking 23 rehabilitation facilities using Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)
• Advancing the measurement of caregiver impact: Data collection priorities aligned with caregiver, health technology assessment, and policy stakeholders.
• Predictive tools in maternal health: Making futures for patients and populations
• Measurement of Human Flourishing Constructs in Evaluation of Voluntary Family Planning Interventions: A Modified Scoping Review of the Literature

Themes: mental health, psychometrics, public health, psychological wellbeing, older adults, quality of life, COVID-19, sustainability

Methods: survey, qualitative, cross-sectional, quantitative, systematic review, longitudinal

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Covers 2026-07-23 to 2026-07-30; 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 2026-07-23 – 2026-07-30.

Top papers

• Developing community-defined indicators of Indigenous health: Practical guidance from the Ahtna approach to wildfire resilience
• Establishing an air quality index based on proxy data for urban planning: Finalization, validation and application to a case study.
• Passive wearable physiology tracks a state-level material-hardship gradient in resting heart rate
• A conceptual framework for measuring AI health equity
• THE CONSUMPTION RIGIDITY INDEX: STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINTS ON HOUSEHOLD BUDGETS IN A CROSS-COUNTRY PERSPECTIVE

Themes: mental health, machine learning, wellbeing, quality of life, cognitive impairment, public policy, predictive modeling, employee wellbeing

Methods: qualitative, survey, cross-sectional, quantitative, case-study, systematic review

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Covers 2026-07-16 to 2026-07-23; 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 2026-07-16 – 2026-07-23.

Top papers

• Measurement of social and emotional wellbeing and mental health outcomes in first nations children: A systematic review
• Covid-19 related excess mortality: An analysis by age for selected countries
• Managing Social Impact: An Integrated Approach and Research Agenda
• The costs of caring: understanding the lived experience of unpaid caregiving and risks to financial wellbeing
• Beyond conventional metrics: a scoping review of cultural food security definitions and indicators for migrant populations

Themes: mental health, machine learning, wellbeing, public health, depression, children, psychometrics, well-being

Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, systematic review, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis

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Covers 2026-07-09 to 2026-07-16; 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 2026-07-09 – 2026-07-16.

Top papers

• A Comparative Review of Methods to Create a Composite Index for Sustainable and Inclusive Wellbeing
• Racial and economic disparities in coastal access and engagement mediate the ocean’s contribution to human wellbeing
• Feasibility of administering the Patient-Reported Outcome Measure for Older People living with frailty receiving Acute Care (PROM-OPAC) in older people with cognitive impairment.
• A Quantitative Approach for Assessing and Monitoring the Social Licence of Forestry to Operate: A New Zealand Case Study
• A Micro-Scale Walkability Metric for Pleasant Pedestrian Route Planning

Themes: mental health, wellbeing, physical activity, sustainability, adolescents, higher education, psychometrics, public health

Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, case-study, cross-sectional, longitudinal

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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 resilience indicators to mental health, aging, climate, and care.

Episode covers 2026-07-02 – 2026-07-09.

Top papers

• DIGITAL INDICATORS AND MANAGERIAL RATIONALITIES IN HEALTH SYSTEMS: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF GOVERNANCE, DECISION-MAKING, AND THE ORGANIZATION OF CARE UNDER LEGAL-INSTITUTIONAL, SOCIOECONOMIC, AND MANAGERIAL PERSPECTIVES
• No maternal health without perinatal mental health: a framework for standardized indicators
• COMBINA: The EAAD four-level approach for depression and suicide prevention and wellbeing promotion in the community and vulnerable populations. A cross-country study protocol from the MENTBEST project
• Assessing urban watershed sustainability in the Rio Blanco basin (Mexico) using the HELP—WSI framework
• Trends in anxiety and depressive symptoms among adults in Norway based on eight population-based surveys from 1995 to 2024.

Themes: mental health, public health, physical activity, employee wellbeing, social media, quality of life, wellbeing, psychometrics

Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, longitudinal, cross-sectional, scoping review

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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 mental health, aging, climate, and care.

Episode covers 2026-06-25 – 2026-07-02.

Top papers

• Community versus donor and implementer-defined success metrics in climate mitigation and adaptation projects: A systematic literature review of what matters
• Mental health of healthcare workers in England during the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic: The NHS CHECK study cohort.
• Abandonment or overreach: the ethical failures of health and social systems and the need for contributory reciprocity
• Rating Evaluation - Impacts of extreme weather (REvIEW): A quantitative measure of the impacts of exposure to extreme weather events
• Numbers that count: public accountability during crises

Themes: mental health, wellbeing, psychological wellbeing, biomarkers, resilience, quality of life, psychological resilience, COVID-19

Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, cross-sectional, case-study, longitudinal

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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, climate, and care.

Episode covers 2026-06-18 – 2026-06-25.

Top papers

• Measuring scientific coherence between global neglected tropical disease research and population health indicators: a 25-year meta-research study
• Spatiotemporal Variations in Warm Season Heat Extremes in the Midwestern United States, 1959-2020
• From compliance to cultural continuity: Māori non-profit resilience as an exemplar for global reporting
• Voices of the Wetland: Documenting Indigenous Knowledge and Practices for Sustainable Management in Kingwal, Kenya
• Governing teacher well-being in international policy discourse: Problem representation, accountability, and the individualisation of care

Themes: mental health, student wellbeing, accountability, workplace safety, higher education, workplace wellbeing, safety culture, environmental impact

Methods: qualitative, quantitative, case-study, survey, RCT, pilot study

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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 alternatives and resilience indicators to mental health, aging, climate, and care.

Episode covers 2026-06-11 – 2026-06-18.

Top papers

• Assessing and Improving Access to Health and Social Care Services for Children Rendered Vulnerable by Abuse: Protocol for a Cross-Sectoral Longitudinal, Mixed Methods, Multi-Country Study Using Nationwide Data in Europe
• From fragmented risk communication to climate-mental health resilience: A syndemic preparedness framework for climate change, mental health and health misinformation
• What is the public's social welfare function?
• From pilot to region-wide impact: study protocol for an implementation study and randomised controlled trial of the LEX LOTSEN OWL Care and Case Management System
• From institutional strategies to relational wellbeing: how implementation quality shapes psychological safety in schools

Themes: physical activity, public health, older adults, mental health, machine learning, mindfulness, education, injury prevention

Methods: quantitative, qualitative, survey, case-study, mixed-methods, observational study

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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 health, aging, climate, and care.

Episode covers 2026-06-04 – 2026-06-11.

Top papers

• Escaping the metric-driven governance trap in global health: how DALYs and coverage indicators mislead policymakers in LMICs
• Street view-based exposure to greenspace and mortality: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
• To What Extent Do Australian Government Metrics Align With Indigenous and Non‐Indigenous Conceptualisations of Wellbeing? A Scoping Review of Wellbeing Frameworks
• Digital biomarkers in chronic disease management: a systematic review of personalization and ethical challenges.
• HamCat: Ego‐Centric Relationship Exploration for Multidimensional Categorical Data

Themes: Type 2 Diabetes, continuous glucose monitoring, diabetes management, mental health, Continuous Glucose Monitoring, type 1 diabetes, machine learning, digital health

Methods: survey, longitudinal, qualitative, machine learning, cross-sectional, observational study

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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 resilience indicators to mental health, aging, climate, and care.

Episode covers 2026-05-28 – 2026-06-04.

Top papers

• Impact measurement and management as governance infrastructure in development finance: Catalytic or extractive?
• Evaluating the Consequences of a Hypertension Management Incentive
• Explainable artificial intelligence techniques for measuring social value: a systematic review of machine learning methods
• Into the headwinds: key emotional intelligence capacities that predict women's workplace wellbeing across job roles
• Politicizing Expertise for Dutch Broad Wellbeing: Knowledge Accountability for Transformative Change

Themes: mental health, quality of life, patient-reported outcomes, breast cancer, wellbeing, physical activity, cancer care, employee engagement

Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, longitudinal, systematic review, RCT

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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 resilience indicators to mental health, aging, climate, and care.

Episode covers 2026-05-21 – 2026-05-28.

Top papers

• Screen Interaction, Not Screen Time: Multidimensional Framework, Global Policy Evidence, and Clinical Recommendations for Children with Screen Addiction and Screen Trauma
• Comparative Analysis of Additive and Multiplicative BoD Models in Healthcare Performance Evaluation
• Public Value Under Constraint: Fiscal Austerity and the Conversion of Education Policy into Social Well-Being in Brazil
• Bridging Global Sustainability Objectives With Corporate Reporting Standards: Sustainable Development Goals Meet European Sustainability Reporting Standards
• From Nonfinancial Reporting to Management Control: A GRI ‐Based Sustainability Balanced Scorecard

Themes: wellbeing, mental health, occupational health, public health, burnout, transdisciplinary research, education, psychometrics

Methods: qualitative, survey, quantitative, case-study, systematic review, bibliometric analysis

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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
• Metrics for Adaptation and Resilience Risks for Non-Domestic Buildings: How Many People in Great Britain Will Be Affected by Flooding and Overheating Risks?
• Regional Inequalities and the Plea for Universalism: Evidence from the Finnish UBI Experiment
• Pollution to prevention: digital decision support for air pollution and exercise counselling in general practice

Themes: mental health, machine learning, wellbeing, higher education, social media, sustainability, mindfulness, quality of life

Methods: qualitative, quantitative, survey, case-study, machine learning, mixed-methods

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• pressgazette.co.uk — Most popular websites for news in the world: Monthly top 50 listing
• commonwealthfund.org — India | Commonwealth Fund

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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 healthy, deSigning and evaluating effective HEalth Services to maintain functional AbIlity (KOSHESAI); study protocol for a multimethod, prospective, hybrid implementation-effectiveness study
• Teacher wellbeing in schools: a systematic review of job demands and job resources
• Health Data Literacy in Canada: The Missing Metric in a Data-Rich Era

Themes: mental health, public health, machine learning, wellbeing, quality of life, older adults, depression, sustainable development

Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, machine learning, RCT, systematic review

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• signal49.ca — Why We Need to Rebuild Work Around Wellbeing
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• globalwellnessinstitute.org — Music for Health and Wellbeing Initiative Trends for 2026
• shorensteincenter.org — Redefining Local: How Young Americans Engage with Television ...
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