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Rebecca Bentley is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia, focusing on research within the social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including general health professions, health toxicology and mutagenesis, sociology and political science, health, and finance.

Their research concentrates on a range of topics related to health and social conditions. Key themes include health disparities and outcomes, housing, finance and neoliberalism, climate change and health impacts, noise effects and management, urban neighborhood and segregation studies, homelessness and social issues, and employment and welfare studies.

Rebecca Bentley has published extensively in several academic journals and conference venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • International Journal of Epidemiology
  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • International Journal of Housing Policy

Recent papers authored by or involving Bentley cover diverse topics and were published from 2020 to 2023. These include:

  • "Mental health and prolonged exposure to unaffordable housing: a longitudinal analysis" (2020, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology)
  • "Beyond the bicycle: Seeing the context of the gender gap in cycling" (2020, Journal of Transport & Health)
  • "Mapping social vulnerability indicators to understand the health impacts of climate change: a scoping review" (2023, The Lancet Planetary Health)
  • "Methods for accounting for neighbourhood self-selection in physical activity and dietary behaviour research: a systematic review" (2020, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity)
  • "Autoantibody Biomarkers for Basal Ganglia Encephalitis in Sydenham Chorea and Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated With Streptococcal Infections" (2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry)

Bentley often collaborates with other researchers in related fields. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Ang Li
  • Emma Baker
  • Erika Martino
  • Adelle Mansour
  • Lyrian Daniel

Best Publications

  • Housing Disadvantage and Poor Mental Health: A Systematic Review

    Ankur Singh;Lyrian Daniel;Emma Baker;Rebecca Bentley

  • Does gender modify associations between self rated health and the social and economic characteristics of local environments

    Anne M Kavanagh;Rebecca Bentley;Gavin Turrell;Dorothy H Broom

  • Social capital and health in rural and urban communities in South Australia

    Anna M Ziersch;Fran Baum;I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan;Anne M Kavanagh

  • Housing affordability and mental health: does the relationship differ for renters and home purchasers?

    Kate E Mason;Emma Baker;Tony Blakely;Rebecca J Bentley

  • Association Between Housing Affordability and Mental Health: A Longitudinal Analysis of a Nationally Representative Household Survey in Australia

    Rebecca Bentley;Emma Baker;Kate Mason;S. V. Subramanian

  • The impact of persistent poor housing conditions on mental health: A longitudinal population-based study

    David J Pevalin;Aaron Reeves;Emma Baker;Rebecca Bentley

  • Socioeconomic position, gender, health behaviours and biomarkers of cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

    Anne Kavanagh;Rebecca J. Bentley;Gavin Turrell;Jonathan Shaw

  • Poor housing quality: Prevalence and health effects

    Emma Baker;Laurence H Lester;Rebecca Bentley;Andrew Beer

  • Intersections between disability, type of impairment, gender and socio-economic disadvantage in a nationally representative sample of 33,101 working aged Australians

    Anne M. Kavanagh;Lauren Krnjacki;Zoe Aitken;Anthony D. LaMontagne

  • Housing affordability and residential mobility as drivers of locational inequality

    Emma Baker;Rebecca Bentley;Laurence Lester;Andrew Beer

  • Housing affordability, tenure and mental health in Australia and the United Kingdom: a comparative panel analysis

    Rebecca J. Bentley;David Pevalin;Emma Baker;Kate Mason

  • Fast food purchasing and access to fast food restaurants: a multilevel analysis of VicLANES.

    Lukar E Thornton;Rebecca J Bentley;Anne M Kavanagh

  • The Mental Health Effects of Housing Tenure: Causal or Compositional?

    Emma Baker;Rebecca Bentley;Kate Mason

  • Cumulative exposure to poor housing affordability and its association with mental health in men and women

    Rebecca Bentley;Emma Baker;Kate Mason

  • Neoliberalism, economic restructuring and policy change: Precarious housing and precarious employment in Australia

    Andrew Beer;Rebecca Bentley;Emma Baker;Kate Mason

  • Exploring the Bi-directional Relationship between Health and Housing in Australia

    Emma Baker;Kate Mason;Rebecca Bentley;Shelley Mallett

  • Employment status and mental health among persons with and without a disability: evidence from an Australian cohort study

    A Milner;A D LaMontagne;Z Aitken;R Bentley

  • Individual and area-level socioeconomic associations with fast food purchasing

    Lukar E Thornton;Rebecca J Bentley;Anne M Kavanagh

  • Access to alcohol outlets and harmful alcohol consumption: a multi-level study in Melbourne, Australia.

    Anne Marie Kavanagh;Mary Kelly;Lauren Krnjacki;Lukar Thornton

  • Reflection on modern methods: when worlds collide—prediction, machine learning and causal inference

    Tony Blakely;John Lynch;Koen Simons;Rebecca Bentley

  • Is Housing a Health Insult

    Emma Baker;Andrew Beer;Laurence Lester;David Pevalin

  • Reduced food access due to a lack of money, inability to lift and lack of access to a car for food shopping: a multilevel study in Melbourne, Victoria.

    Cate Burns;Rebecca Bentley;Lukar Thornton;Anne Kavanagh

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne M Kavanagh
Anne M Kavanagh University of Melbourne
Anthony D. LaMontagne
Anthony D. LaMontagne Deakin University
Tony Blakely
Tony Blakely University of Melbourne
Allison Milner
Allison Milner University of Melbourne
Gavin Turrell
Gavin Turrell RMIT University
Hannah Badland
Hannah Badland RMIT University
Aaron Reeves
Aaron Reeves University of Oxford
S. V. Subramanian
S. V. Subramanian Harvard University
Suzanne Mavoa
Suzanne Mavoa University of Melbourne
Barry Milne
Barry Milne University of Auckland

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