I tend to use well-being and wellness right now because it implies more than staying out of trouble, preventing disease, and implies rather moving toward being +10 rather than just neutral or at zero.
On the policy side, more and more countries are using well-being data in the real world.
There are challenges to using well-being metrics.
Using well-being to value outcomes: D. Valuing by association with well-being.
The following MeSH terms and text words were used: "well-being" or "happiness" or "happy*", "optimism", "positive psychology" in combination with "intervention", "treatment", "therapy" and "prevention".
One of the issues in applying well-being approaches has been deciding which measure to use, but here we focus on describing the different approaches to using well-being.
The ten main approaches reviewed in this paper are classified under three headings: those looking to extend the existing health-related QALYs, those using well-being and those using money to value outcomes.
A total of 43 core questions over 14 pages were included in both long and short questionnaires pertaining to mobile phone use, well-being and health, symptoms, and risk factors for the diseases defined as outcomes.
To evaluate the incremental validity of the PHI for the whole sample compared to other widely used well-being scales, we conducted a series of separate regression analyses, employing sleep quality and perceived health as criteria because they are often considered adequate proxies of well-being [ 20, 57].
This paper presents the advantages and disadvantages of ten possible approaches covering extending the health-related QALY and using well-being and monetary-based methods, in order to address the problem of using multiple outcome measures to inform resource allocation within and between sectors.
