Rebecca Bentley

Short-run effects of poverty on asthma, ear infections and health service use: analysis of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children.

Rebecca Bentley, Koen Simons, Amanda Kvelsvig, Barry Milne, Tony Blakely

Journal article  |  2021  |  International Journal of Epidemiology

BACKGROUND: Many studies have reported an inferred causal association of income poverty with physical health among children; but m..

Home ownership, income and oral health of children in Australia-A population-based study.

Ludmila Fleitas Alfonzo, Rebecca Bentley, Ankur Singh

Journal article  |  2021  |  Community Dentistry And Oral Epidemiology

OBJECTIVE: Income inequalities in children's oral health have been well described. It is plausible that the security of tenure ref..

Alcohol and tobacco consumption: What is the role of economic security?

Rebecca Bentley, Emma Baker, Erika Martino, Yuxi Li, Kate Mason

Journal article  |  2021  |  Addiction

AIMS: To understand better the longstanding inequalities concerning alcohol and tobacco use, we aimed to quantify the effect of ho..

Causal ordering among risk factors in the PURE study

Tony Blakely, Neil Pearce, John Lynch, Shyamali Dharmage, Melissa Russell, Deborah Lawlor, Rebecca Bentley

Journal article  |  2021  |  The Lancet

The relationship between income poverty and child hospitalisations in New Zealand: Evidence from longitudinal household panel data and Census data

Nichola Shackleton, Eileen Li, Sheree Gibb, Amanda Kvalsvig, Michael Baker, Andrew Sporle, Rebecca Bentley, Barry J Milne

Journal article  |  2021  |  PLoS One

BACKGROUND: Very little high quality evidence exists on the causal relationship between income poverty and childhood health. We pr..

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

Tony Blakely, John Lynch, Koen Simons, Rebecca Bentley, Sherri Rose

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Epidemiology

Causal inference requires theory and prior knowledge to structure analyses, and is not usually thought of as an arena for the appl..

Urban Social Housing Pathways: A Linked Administrative Data Analysis

Emma Baker, Anh Pham, Chris Leishman, Lyrian Daniel, Rebecca Bentley

Journal article  |  2020  |  Urban Policy and Research

Housing at the frontline of the COVID-19 challenge: A commentary on "Rising home values and Covid-19 case rates in Massachusetts"

Rebecca Bentley, Emma Baker

Journal article  |  2020  |  Social Science and Medicine

Beyond the bicycle: Seeing the context of the gender gap in cycling

Caroline Shaw, Marie Russell, Michael Keall, Sara MacBride-Stewart, Kirsty Wild, Dory Reeves, Rebecca Bentley, Alistair Woodward

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Transport & Health

Do financial hardship and social support mediate the effect of unaffordable housing on mental health?

Ankur Singh, Zoe Aitken, Emma Baker, Rebecca Bentley

Journal article  |  2020  |  Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

PURPOSE: Unaffordable housing has a negative impact on mental health; however, little is known about the causal pathways through w..