Rebecca Bentley

Vulnerability and recovery: Long-term mental and physical health trajectories following climate-related disasters

Ang Li, Mathew Toll, Erika Martino, Ilan Wiesel, Ferdi Botha, Rebecca Bentley

Journal article  |  2023  |  SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Extreme weather and climate-related disaster events are associated with a range of adverse health outcomes. People are not equally..

The effect of energy poverty on mental health, cardiovascular disease and respiratory health: a longitudinal analysis

R Bentley, L Daniel, Y Li, E Baker, A Li

Journal article  |  2023  |  The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific

Background: Houses in mild-climate countries, such as Australia, are often ill-equipped to provide occupants protection during col..

Between liminality and a new life in Australia: What is the effect of precarious housing on the mental health of humanitarian migrants?

E Martino, Y Li, J Kali-Opio, R Bentley

Journal article  |  2022  |  Cities

Humanitarian migrants face a range of challenges during the resettlement process. Foremost among these is finding affordable, secu..

Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL): Australian research network in human health and environmental change.

Sotiris Vardoulakis, Veronica Matthews, Linda Payi Ford, Daniela Espinoza Oyarce, Brad Farrant, Fay Johnston, Alan Cass, Rebecca Bentley, Craig Williams, Cordia Chu

Journal article  |  2022  |  Lancet Planet Health

BACKGROUND: The HEAL Network aims to strengthen the Australian health system and community resilience to climate change, extreme e..

Housing inequality: a systematic scoping review

Laura James, Lyrian Daniel, Rebecca Bentley, Emma Baker

Journal article  |  2022  |  HOUSING STUDIES

Housing inequality is far more than a housing matter. To discover how housing inequality has been used across disciplines, and how..

Evidence to guide ethical decision-making in the management of older people living in squalor: a narrative review.

Sook Meng Lee, Erika Martino, Marie Bismark, Rebecca Bentley

Journal article  |  2022  |  Intern Med J

Older people living in squalor present healthcare providers with a set of complex issues because squalor occurs alongside a variet..

Housing affordability and mental health: an analysis of generational change

Rebecca Bentley, Emma Baker, Richard Ronald, Aaron Reeves, Susan J Smith, Koen Simons, Kate Mason

Journal article  |  2022  |  HOUSING STUDIES

Unaffordable housing has many dimensions, not least its far-reaching implications for mental health. Although the psycho-social ef..

Housing unaffordability and mental health: dynamics across age and tenure

Rowan Arundel, Ang Li, Emma Baker, Rebecca Bentley

Journal article  |  2022  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOUSING POLICY

This paper examines changing trends in housing affordability in the Netherlands and its link to mental health across tenures and a..

Environmental Noise Exposure and Mental Health: Evidence From a Population-Based Longitudinal Study

Ang Li, Erika Martino, Adelle Mansour, Rebecca Bentley

Journal article  |  2022  |  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

INTRODUCTION: Exposure to environmental noise from within homes has been associated with poor mental health. Existing evidence res..

Housing and health: an updated glossary

Adelle Mansour, Rebecca Bentley, Emma Baker, Ang Li, Erika Martino, Amy Clair, Lyrian Daniel, Shiva Raj Mishra, Natasha J Howard, Peter Phibbs, David E Jacobs, Andrew Beer, Tony Blakely, Philippa Howden-Chapman

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

Recent crises have underscored the importance that housing has in sustaining good health and, equally, its potential to harm healt..