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Latest Results from World Wellbeing Panel Survey
https://bse.eu/research/world-wellbeing-panel/wellbys
In December 2021, members of the World Wellbeing Panel were asked for their views on two statements relating to the recently formulated concept of WELLBYs. As defined by the UK Treasury: “A WELLBY equates to a one-point change in life satisfaction on a 0-10 scale, per person per year.”1 It is related to the concept of Happiness Adjusted Life Years (HALYs)2, also called Happy Life Years, or Happy life-expectancy, for which time series exist.3
The two statements were as follows:
(i) "The WELLBY cost-benefit methodology will soon become a standard tool for policy development and evaluations in the state bureaucracy of most OECD countries"; and
(ii) "The WELLBY cost-benefit methodology as it is now adopted by the UK and New Zealand bureaucracy will give a greater weight to mental health, social relations, and the environment in cost-benefit calculations than the classic economic methods it replaces."
16 of the World Wellbeing Panelists responded.
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How behavioural experiments boost sustainable leadership
https://intelligence.weforum.org/topics/a1Gb0000000pTDYEA2/publications/7a04ed6536ec4a9799087983df8a4fafhttps://intelligence.weforum.org/topics/a1Gb0000000pTDYEA2/publications/7a04ed6536ec4a9799087983df8a4faf
Global Issue of Mental Health
The cost of mental health conditions (and related consequences) is projected to rise to $6 trillion globally by 2030, from $2.5 trillion in 2010, according to a study published by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard School of Public Health. That would make the cost of poor mental health greater than that of cancer, diabetes, and respiratory ailments combined. Now, as people around the world contend with stress and social restrictions related to COVID-19, mental health has become a particular area of concern for policy-makers and health professionals.
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How neuroscience can help with financial misconduct
https://www.wbs.ac.uk/news/how-neuroscience-can-help-with-financial-misconduct/