Wellbeing as a Wicked Problem: Navigating the Arguments for the Role of Government

Bache, Ian; Reardon, Louise; Anand, Paul

doi:10.1007/s10902-015-9623-y

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“…United Kingdom (UK) and 34 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries also measure QoL focusing on life satisfaction but with a different set of indicators. Australian concept (Bache et al, 2016) of QoL is again different than others.…”

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Economic Aspects of Quality of Life of Bangladeshi Construction Workers in Malaysia

Haque

Ghani²

2020

JAD

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Quality of Life (QoL) measures provide a sense of how people's lives are going through the activities and interactions between their circumstances and psychological resources. This measurement/ evaluation is a valuable tool and a precondition for planning to improve the socio-economic QoL or Wellbeing of the people surveyed. Researchers conducted a qualitative study to know the economic QoL of Bangladeshi migrant construction workers in Terengganu, who have immigrated for less than ten years in Malaysia. Researchers triangulated the survey by two focus group discussions, 19 in-depth interviews, and observations of four spots. The research used Atlas ti to conduct the thematic analysis of the primary data. The result of the study shows that the workers are mostly in adverse QoL with the effect of freedom, functioning, facilitator, and financial management. The study finally recommends, Community-based work permit, trade union, and digital financial system to ensure more freedom to improve the economic QoL of the migrant Bangladeshi construction workers.

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Economic Aspects of Quality of Life of Bangladeshi Construction Workers in Malaysia

Haque

Ghani²

2020

JAD

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“…In contrast, validated outcome measures provide standardised approaches to measure the value and effectiveness of services. Internationally, there has been a growth in the development of subjective well‐being measures, which allow the development of comparable indices of quality of life (QoL; Austin, ; Bache & Reardon, ; Bache, Reardon, & Anand, ). In health and social care, these are considered to be a leap forward from approaches that measure easily quantifiable outputs (number of care visits a day and number of surgeries performed) and are increasingly visible in health and social care research and evaluation (Couzner, Ratcliffe, & Crotty, ; Glasby, Allen, & Robinson, ; Jones et al, ).…”

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Participatory research meets validated outcome measures: Tensions in the co‐production of social care evaluation

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Funding for care service research is increasingly subject to the satisfaction of two requirements: public involvement and adoption of validated outcome tools. This study identifies competing paradigms within these requirements and reveals significant challenges faced by researchers who seek to satisfy them. The focus here is on a study co-produced between academic researchers and people with experience of adult social care services. It examines to what extent research studies can conduct high-quality public involvement and genuine co-production of knowledge, whilst attempting to produce quantifiable outcome scores. Findings add to debate around how to incorporate diverse perspectives in research, which may draw on incommensurate accounts of validity and reliability. Findings also highlight constructive attempts by academic and co-researchers to make the combination of approaches work in the field. These small scale acts of researcher agency indicate some scope to combine the two approaches in future research studies. However, conclusions foreground the importance of broader awareness of how tensions and power imbalances related to this combination of approaches play out in social policy research practice.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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“…The wicked a problem is, the more it requires higher levels of awareness, higher ambitions to solve it and shrewder approaches that involve combinations of rational thinking (Young et.al, 2015). As argued in this article, wellbeing is particularly wicked because definitions are multidimensional and, hence, not easily teased out and clarified (Bache, Reardon & Anand, 2016). ).…”

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Wicked wellbeing: Examining the disconnect between the rhetoric and reality of wellbeing interventions in schools

Svane

Evans

Carter

2019

Australian Journal of Education

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Wellbeing is an emerging priority that poses a 'wicked' problem. Current directives from policy makers are that schools address student wellbeing. However, the lack of a clear definition, simple solution or process for ensuring wellbeing creates a difficult task for schools. This article seeks to add to the current understanding of wellbeing in schools by drawing on the findings of a systematic literature review to investigate the characteristics and outcomes of school-based wellbeing interventions. Four databases were searched to identify relevant peer-reviewed articles published in English. The background discussion is set in the Australian context, however, the geographic scope of the literature review is international. Findings of the study align with previous research that views definitions of wellbeing as problematic. The broad range of wellbeing interventions found in the literature highlights a lack of consensus around best practice for wellbeing in schools. Despite evidence showing the benefits of a whole school approach, the majority of articles describe programs and strategies targeted at small groups of students. The outcomes of the interventions are difficult to compare because they do not necessarily relate directly to wellbeing. This article raises questions about the evidence base to support the validity and trustworthiness of the interventions. Further research is necessary to consolidate understandings of wellbeing and to provide solid research evidence to inform further development of school wellbeing practices.

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Wellbeing as a Wicked Problem: Navigating the Arguments for the Role of Government

Cited by 52 publications

References 27 publications

Economic Aspects of Quality of Life of Bangladeshi Construction Workers in Malaysia

Economic Aspects of Quality of Life of Bangladeshi Construction Workers in Malaysia

Participatory research meets validated outcome measures: Tensions in the co‐production of social care evaluation

Wicked wellbeing: Examining the disconnect between the rhetoric and reality of wellbeing interventions in schools

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