Do 10 More Work Hours Cut Sleep? Plus: Healthy City Pilots

A 10-hour workweek increase is linked to more fatigue and less sleep, while city, migration, and food insecurity findings put implementation at the center of well-being policy. Covers 2026-06-08 to 2026-06-15; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers. Good policy should show up in better lives. What's Well & Good in Policy follows the research testing that promise, from universal basic income and health insurance to mental health supports, living wages, schools, sustainability, and the politics of wellbeing. Episode covers 2026-06-08 – 2026-06-15. Top papers How work hours affect well-being: A target trial emulation Revisiting ‘low politics’: the geopolitical contours of the EU Work–Life Balance Directive From green to gold: Synergistic enhancement of residents' well-being and ecological quality under China's "two mountains" pilots zones. Examination of the effects of the National Pension Scheme Authority Partial Withdrawal on the Socio-economic Status of Contributors in Lusaka District, Zambia Mental Health Outcome Trends in a Nationally Representative Sample of Canadian Migrant Adolescents From 2014 to 2022 Themes: mental health, public health, higher education, work-life balance, health policy, well-being, governance, community engagement Methods: qualitative, survey, case-study, quantitative, interviews, systematic review Premium NewsPremium also covers 10 related news stories, including policycircle.org — NFHS-6 exposes India's unfinished health governance agenda, kff.org — Medicaid Enrollment and Unwinding Tracker - KFF, and commonwealthfund.org — U.S. Health Care from Global Perspective 2026 Expanded Edition. Upgrade to PremiumThe premium version of this podcast covers all 40 research articles and 10 news stories selected for the episode. Subscribe to the premium podcast. Generated by paperboy.fm.