A measurement tool of "lived experience" has been developed, including numerical and qualitative measures of how people live their lives, which can be shared across Greater Manchester's health systems.
"What shareholders want is transparent external measures of how we're doing against the competition.
The links increase what ecologists called connectance and nestedness, measures of how stable the food web is.
Undeterred, Prime Minister David Cameron has decided to create a national happiness index providing quarterly measures of how folks feel.
MASSACHUSETTS ranks at or near the top of national measures of how well schoolchildren do at reading and mathematics.
Brazilians usually rank at the very top in international measures of how optimistic the citizens of a nation are about its future.
He examined two measures of how well doctors are looking after their patients: diagnosis of depression and atrial fibrillation to prevent strokes.
The Forum, the body behind the high-powered annual Davos summit, has produced 15 measures of how well countries foster equality as they grow their economies.
"There is collaboration between the World Bank Waves [Wealth Accounting and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services] programme and the Natural Capital Coalition, which is great because hopefully we'll be able to harmonise measures of how you account for GDP adjusted for nature with measures of how you account for profit adjusted for nature," he says.
Even granting, especially at research universities, the importance of matters other than teaching students, why doesn't compensation turn on clear measures of how much students learn?
Other measures of how, well, interesting the market is today: The VIX — a measure of fear in the markets — had eased down to 35 on Tuesday.
