Wellbeing and the Environment

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Wellbeing Has an Environment

Studies of firms, cognitive-care facilities, recovery homes, and urban health all ask how surroundings shape wellbeing. The week’s through-line: environments are being treated as systems to design, govern, and measure—not just backdrops.

Emissions management, diversity, inclusion, and employee wellbeing were linked to stronger returns among BRICS companies.
Cognitive-care spaces are being evaluated for social connection and staff effectiveness, not just safety.
Food environments, active-living barriers, and access to health-promoting resources are being considered alongside individual health knowledge.

Organizations as health settings

The effects of ESG activities on firm performance: evidence from the BRICS

It separates ESG into components and reports positive links between emissions management, diversity, inclusion, employee wellbeing, and firm returns in BRICS companies.

Managing heavy work investment: a qualitative study of employees’ experiences and expectations in the Indian IT industry

It examines how Indian IT professionals experience heavy work investment and what wellbeing-oriented support they expect from employers.

Places that invite connection

Designing for Social Engagement in Cognitive Care: A Case Study.

It uses a postoccupancy evaluation to ask how a purpose-built cognitive-care program supports or constrains social engagement and staff effectiveness.

'Merge my breath with the one of nature': Qualitative analysis on focus groups exploring how nature exposure could improve positive body image in young women.

It explores, through focus groups with young Italian women, how nature exposure might improve positive body image.

Governance Processes and Recovery Environments in Recovery Homes: The Roles of Decision-Making and Rule Implementation.

It links resident participation in recovery-home decision-making with more positive social environments.

Health beyond the clinic

Nutrition knowledge, attitude, and practice in relation to health-related quality of life among urban-poor children in Malaysia: the mediating role of lifestyle factors

It studies how nutrition knowledge, lifestyle behaviors, body composition, and quality of life relate among urban-poor children in Malaysia, in a context that includes constrained food environments and limited access to health-promoting resources.

Physical activity as a core component of integrative epilepsy care in low- and middle-income settings.

It argues that physical activity should be a core part of epilepsy care in low- and middle-income settings, where barriers include economic vulnerability, urban insecurity, and low health literacy.

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2026-09-04 – 2026-09-11

67 papers

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Papers: The effects of ESG activities on firm performance: evidence from the BRICS Designing for Social Engagement in Cognitive Care: A Case Study. 'Merge my breath with the one of nature': Qualitative analysis on focus groups exploring how nature exposure could improve positive body image in young women. The impact of working in immersive theatre on actors' health. +36 more