10. Oxfam's Humankind Index

Assessing human well‐being constructs with environmental and equity aspects: A review of the landscape

“…Other studies provide extensive detail around the development process itself (e.g. Meo‐Sewabu, 2015; New Zealand Government, 2019; Trebeck & Abeyasekera, 2012). This could be for several reasons; first, some constructs provide more detail as they are aiming to create and describe a framework for use by other researchers and practitioners.…”

“… 5 5 As an example of an explicit consideration of distributional equity related to health, the National Sustainable Development Plan for the Republic of Vanuatu lays out the following policy objective: to ‘Ensure that the population of Vanuatu has equitable access to affordable, quality health care through the fair distribution of facilities that are suitably resourced and equipped’ (DSPPAC, 2017, p. 11). As an example of inferred consideration of class/economic, health and livelihood/employment in relation to equity, the Oxfam Humankind Index discusses ‘deprived communities’, relying on the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020 which defines deprivation in terms of income, employment and health (Trebeck & Abeyasekera, 2012; Dunlop & Swales, 2012). …”

Building a More Equal Scotland: Designing Scotland’s Poverty and Inequality Commission

“…37 We found that people in Scotland most valued a safe home, being physically and mentally healthy, and a clean environment. Encouragingly, Scotland has taken steps to widen its measures of success through the National Performance Framework 38 -though there's much work to do to embed this alternative approach.…”