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Overview

Laia Bécares is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans social sciences and medicine, with a focus on health disparities and outcomes, chronic disease management strategies, migration-related health issues, and topics relating to racial, ethnic, and LGBTQ+ health identities and policies.

Their main fields of study involve social sciences and medicine, while notable subfields include general health professions, sociology and political science, health, epidemiology, and clinical psychology.

Bécares has contributed to several publications, with frequent publication venues including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • The British Journal of Psychiatry
  • Sociology of Health & Illness
  • SSM Annual Scientific Meeting

Collaborators frequently working with Bécares include:

  • James Nazroo
  • Dharmi Kapadia
  • H. F. W. Taylor
  • Nissa Finney
  • Natalie Shlomo

Their recent papers include:

  • "Discrimination as a predictor of poor mental health among LGBTQ+ people during the COVID-19 pandemic: cross-sectional analysis of the online Queerantine study" (2021), published in BMJ Open
  • "Ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 infection, hospitalisation, intensive care admission, and death: a global systematic review and meta-analysis of over 200 million study participants" (2023), published in EClinicalMedicine
  • "Confronting the consequences of racism, xenophobia, and discrimination on health and health-care systems" (2022), published in The Lancet
  • "Older LGBT+ health inequalities in the UK: setting a research agenda" (2020), published in Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
  • "Neglect of older ethnic minority people in UK research and policy" (2020), published in BMJ

Bécares has also contributed to book publications with Policy Press, including two editions of "Racism and Ethnic Inequality in a Time of Crisis" published in 2023.

Best Publications

  • The buffering effects of ethnic density on experienced racism and health

    Laia Bécares;James Nazroo;Mai Stafford

  • Cumulative effect of racial discrimination on the mental health of ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom

    Stephanie Wallace;Jacques Yzet Nazroo;Laia Becares

  • Ethnic Density Effects on Physical Morbidity, Mortality, and Health Behaviors: A Systematic Review of the Literature

    Laia Bécares;Richard Shaw;James Nazroo;Mai Stafford

  • Impact of ethnic density on adult mental disorders: narrative review.

    Richard J. Shaw;Karl Atkin;Laia Bécares;Christo B. Albor

  • Understanding the effect of ethnic density on mental health: multi-level investigation of survey data from England

    Jayati Das-Munshi;Laia Becares;Michael E Dewey;Stephen A Stansfeld

  • Composition, Concentration and Deprivation Exploring their Association with Social Cohesion among Different Ethnic Groups in the UK

    Laia Bécares;Mai Stafford;James Laurence;James Nazroo

  • Ethnic density as a buffer for psychotic experiences: Findings from a national survey (EMPIRIC)

    Jayati Das-Munshi;Laia Bécares;Jane E. Boydell;Michael E. Dewey

  • Ethnic density and area deprivation: Neighbourhood effects on Māori health and racial discrimination in Aotearoa/New Zealand

    Laia Bécares;Donna Cormack;Ricci Harris

  • A longitudinal examination of maternal, family, and area-level experiences of racism on children's socioemotional development: patterns and possible explanations

    Laia Bécares;James Nazroo;Yvonne Kelly

  • Ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 infection, hospitalisation, intensive care admission, and death: a global systematic review and meta-analysis of over 200 million study participants

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  • Ethnic density effects for adult mental health: systematic review and meta-analysis of international studies.

    Laia Bécares;Michael Edward Dewey;Jayati Das-Munshi

  • Confronting the consequences of racism, xenophobia, and discrimination on health and health-care systems

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  • Patterns and Determinants of Double-Burden of Malnutrition among Rural Children: Evidence from China

    Nan Zhang;Laia Bécares;Tarani Chandola

  • Associations between maternal experiences of racism and early child health and development: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

    Yvonne Kelly;Laia Becares;James Nazroo

  • Understanding the Influence of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Class on Inequalities in Academic and Non-Academic Outcomes among Eighth-Grade Students: Findings from an Intersectionality Approach

    Laia Bécares;Naomi Priest

  • Discrimination as a predictor of poor mental health among LGBTQ+ people during the COVID-19 pandemic: cross-sectional analysis of the online Queerantine study.

    Dylan Kneale;Laia Bécares

  • Which ethnic groups have the poorest health

    Laia Bécares

  • Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Low Birth Weight and Preterm Birth: The Role of Multiple Forms of Stress.

    Joanna Almeida;Laia Bécares;Kristin Erbetta;Vani R. Bettegowda

  • Ethnic density effects on health and experienced racism among Caribbean people in the US and England: A cross-national comparison

    Laia Bécares;James Nazroo;James Jackson;Hein Heuvelman

  • The ethnic density effect on alcohol use among ethnic minority people in the UK

    Laia Bécares;James Nazroo;Mai Stafford

  • Objective and Perceived Ethnic Density and Health: Findings From a United Kingdom General Population Survey

    Mai Stafford;Laia Bécares;James Nazroo

  • Social capital, ethnic density and mental health among ethnic minority people in England: a mixed-methods study

    Laia Becares;Jacques Yzet Nazroo

Frequent Co-Authors

James Nazroo
James Nazroo University of Manchester
Mai Stafford
Mai Stafford University College London
Tarani Chandola
Tarani Chandola University of Hong Kong
Yvonne Kelly
Yvonne Kelly University College London
James S. Jackson
James S. Jackson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Esben Agerbo
Esben Agerbo Aarhus University
Karl Atkin
Karl Atkin University of York
Amanda Sacker
Amanda Sacker University College London
Peter R. Schofield
Peter R. Schofield Neuroscience Research Australia
Naomi Priest
Naomi Priest Australian National University

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