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François Béland

François Béland

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
46
Citations
11178
World Ranking
3560
National Ranking
207

Overview

François Béland is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in the field of Medicine, with a specific focus on geriatrics and gerontology.

The scientist's work spans several subfields including Geriatrics and Gerontology, Health, General Health Professions, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, and Physiology. Their research frequently addresses topics such as Frailty in Older Adults, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes, Aging and Gerontology Research, Nutrition and Health in Aging, Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, and Covalent Organic Framework Applications.

François Béland has collaborated with multiple coauthors on a range of studies. Frequent coauthors include Fereshteh Mehrabi, Marı́a Victoria Zunzunegui, Mahmoud Rouabhia, Vishnu Nair Gopalakrishnan, and Jorge Becerra.

Their recent publications cover diverse aspects of aging, health outcomes, and materials science, including these notable papers:

  • Effects of social isolation, loneliness and frailty on health outcomes and their possible mediators and moderators in community-dwelling older adults: A scoping review (2020), published in Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics
  • Impact of Geriatric Assessment and Management on Quality of Life, Unplanned Hospitalizations, Toxicity, and Survival for Older Adults With Cancer: The Randomized 5C Trial (2022), published in Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Porphyrin and single atom featured reticular materials: recent advances and future perspective of solar-driven CO2 reduction (2021), published in Green Chemistry
  • Frailty as a Moderator of the Relationship between Social Isolation and Health Outcomes in Community-Dwelling Older Adults (2021), published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Manifestation of an Enhanced Photoreduction of CO2 to CO over the In Situ Synthesized rGO-Covalent Organic Framework under Visible Light Irradiation (2021), published in ACS Applied Energy Materials

François Béland's research outputs are regularly published in venues including Innovation in Aging, Epidemiologia, BMC Geriatrics, Journal of Geriatric Oncology, and BMC Public Health. Innovation in Aging features the highest number of their publications.

Best Publications

  • Searching for an Operational Definition of Frailty: A Delphi Method Based Consensus Statement. The Frailty Operative Definition-Consensus Conference Project

    Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas;Catherine Féart;Catherine Féart;Giovanni Mann;Jose Viña

  • A safety climate measure for construction sites

    Nicole Dedobbeleer;François Béland

  • Correspondence analysis is a useful tool to uncover the relationships among categorical variables

    Nadia Sourial;Christina Wolfson;Christina Wolfson;Bin Zhu;Jacqueline Quail;Jacqueline Quail

  • International experiments in integrated care for the elderly: a synthesis of the evidence

    Mira Johri;Francois Beland;Howard Bergman;Howard Bergman

  • Life Course Social and Health Conditions Linked to Frailty in Latin American Older Men and Women

    Beatriz E. Alvarado;Maria-Victoria Zunzunegui;Francois Béland;Jean-Marie Bamvita

  • Support from children, living arrangements, self-rated health and depressive symptoms of older people in Spain

    MV Zunzunegui;F Béland;A Otero

  • A System of Integrated Care for Older Persons With Disabilities in Canada: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial

    François Béland;Howard Bergman;Paule Lebel;A. Mark Clarfield

  • Governance, Power, and Mandated Collaboration in an Interorganizational Network

    Charo Rodríguez;Ann Langley;François Béland;Jean-Louis Denis

  • Trajectories of Cognitive Decline and Social Relations

    François Béland;Maria-Victoria Zunzunegui;Beatriz Alvarado;Angel Otero

  • A conceptual framework for the analysis of health care organizations' performance.

    C. Sicotte;F. Champagne;A. P. Contandriopoulos;J. Barnsley

  • Social networks and self-rated health in two French-speaking Canadian community dwelling populations over 65.

    M.V Zunzunegui;A Koné;M Johri;F Béland

  • Predictors of functional status in older people living at home.

    F Béland;M V Zunzunegui

  • Explaining health differences between men and women in later life: A cross-city comparison in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Maria-Victoria Zunzunegui;Beatriz-Eugenia Alvarado;François Béland;Bilkis Vissandjee

  • Care for Canada's frail elderly population: Fragmentation or integration?

    Howard Bergman;François Béland;Paule Lebel;André-Pierre Contandriopoulos

  • Unemployment and health: contextual-level influences on the production of health in populations.

    François Béland;Stephen Birch;Greg Stoddart;Greg Stoddart

  • Effects of social isolation, loneliness and frailty on health outcomes and their possible mediators and moderators in community-dwelling older adults: A scoping review.

    Fereshteh Mehrabi;François Béland

  • Gender differences in depressive symptoms among Spanish elderly

    M. V. Zunzunegui;F. Béland;A. Llácer;V. León

  • Social and Gender Inequalities in Depressive Symptoms Among Urban Older Adults of Latin America and the Caribbean

    Beatriz Eugenia Alvarado;Maria Victoria Zunzunegui;Francois Béland;Maryline Sicotte

  • A multidisciplinary systematic literature review on frailty: Overview of the methodology used by the Canadian Initiative on Frailty and Aging

    Sathya Karunananthan;Christina Wolfson;Christina Wolfson;Howard Bergman;Howard Bergman;François Béland;François Béland

  • Integrated models of care delivery for the frail elderly: international perspectives

    François Béland;Marcus J. Hollander;Marcus J. Hollander

  • Female medical practitioners. More preventive and patient oriented

    Brigitte Maheux;Françine Dufort;François Béland;André Jacques

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Birch
Stephen Birch University of Queensland
Dorly J. H. Deeg
Dorly J. H. Deeg University of Amsterdam
Louise Potvin
Louise Potvin University of Montreal
Claude Sicotte
Claude Sicotte University of Montreal
Thomas Hadjistavropoulos
Thomas Hadjistavropoulos University of Regina
Verena H. Menec
Verena H. Menec University of Manitoba
Noralou P. Roos
Noralou P. Roos University of Manitoba

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