Unaffordable housing: impacts on socio-economic conditions and wellbeing

Housing: the hidden health intervention

R BENTLEY, E Baker, A Reeves

Australia’s long run of “home ownership for all” appears to have ended. Smashed avocado aside, young people are now much less like..

The new benefit cap will not only make people poorer – it will harm their health

R BENTLEY, E Baker, A Reeves

For many families living on very low incomes who rely on state support to help pay their rent, it’s just got even harder to make e..

Why 100 years without slum housing in Australia is coming to an end

E Baker, A Beer, R BENTLEY

Governments must take steps to ensure the supply of affordable housing of reasonable quality. Otherwise, we are destined to become..

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

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

2021-01-28

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

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

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

2020-12-01

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

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

Ankur Singh, Zoe Aitken, Emma Baker, Rebecca Bentley

2020-06-01

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

Methods for accounting for neighbourhood self-selection in physical activity and dietary behaviour research: a systematic review

Karen E Lamb, Lukar E Thornton, Tania L King, Kylie Ball, Simon R White, Rebecca Bentley, Neil T Coffee, Mark Daniel

2020-04-01

BACKGROUND: Self-selection into residential neighbourhoods is a widely acknowledged, but under-studied problem in research investi..

Geographic variation in tobacco use in India: a population-based multilevel cross-sectional study

Ankur Singh, Monika Arora, Rebecca Bentley, Matthew J Spittal, Loc G Do, Nathan Grills, Dallas R English

2020-01-01

OBJECTIVE: This study aims to quantify the extent to which people's use of tobacco products varies by local areas (city ward and v..

New evidence on mental health and housing affordability in cities: A quantile regression approach

Emma Baker, Thien Anh Pham Ngoc, Lyrian Daniel, Rebecca Bentley

2020-01-01

Unaffordable housing costs are one of the most pressing issues facing our cities, affecting people's health in difficult to measur..

Better transport accessibility, better health: a health economic impact assessment study for Melbourne, Australia

Vicki Brown, Alison Barr, Jan Scheurer, Anne Magnus, Belen Zapata-Diomedi, Rebecca Bentley

2019-10-22

BACKGROUND: Physical inactivity is a global public health problem, partly due to urbanization and increased use of passive modes o..

Housing Disadvantage and Poor Mental Health: A Systematic Review

Ankur Singh, Lyrian Daniel, Emma Baker, Rebecca Bentley

2019-08-01

CONTEXT: This study reviews collective evidence on the longitudinal impact of housing disadvantage (based on tenure, precarity, an..

The 'double precarity' of employment insecurity and unaffordable housing and its impact on mental health

Rebecca Bentley, Emma Baker, Zoe Aitken

2019-03-01

This paper describes who is most likely to experience household employment insecurity and housing affordability stress - double pr..

An Australian geography of unhealthy housing

Emma Baker, Laurence Lester, Andrew Beer, Rebecca Bentley

2019-02-01

Housing problems, such as affordability, poor quality of condition, or damp, are key determinants of health and wellbeing. Importa..

Precariously placed: housing affordability, quality and satisfaction of Australians with disabilities

Zoe Aitken, Emma Baker, Hannah Badland, Kate Mason, Rebecca Bentley, Andrew Beer, Anne Marie Kavanagh

2019-01-02

Access to adequate, safe, secure, accessible and affordable housing is a fundamental human right and one stipulated in the United ..

The impact of social housing on mental health: longitudinal analyses using marginal structural models and machine learning-generated weights

Rebecca Bentley, Emma Baker, Koen Simons, Julie A Simpson, Tony Blakely

2018-10-01

Background: Social housing may provide an affordable and secure residential environment, but has also been associated with stigma,..

Do material, psychosocial and behavioural factors mediate the relationship between disability acquisition and mental health? A sequential causal mediation analysis

Zoe Aitken, Julie Anne Simpson, Lyle Gurrin, Rebecca Bentley, Anne Marie Kavanagh

2018-06-01

BACKGROUND: There is evidence of a causal relationship between disability acquisition and poor mental health; however, the mechani..

A Longitudinal Study Examining Changes in Street Connectivity, Land Use, and Density of Dwellings and Walking for Transport in Brisbane, Australia

Rebecca Bentley, Tony Blakely, Anne Kavanagh, Zoe Aitken, Tania King, Paul McElwee, Billie Giles-Corti, Gavin Turrell

2018-05-01

BACKGROUND: Societies face the challenge of keeping people active as they age. Walkable neighborhoods have been associated with ph..

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

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

2017-12-01

Living with housing problems increases the risk of mental ill health. Housing problems tend to persist over time but little is kno..

Disability acquisition and mental health: effect modification by demographic and socioeconomic characteristics using data from an Australian longitudinal study

Zoe Aitken, Julie Anne Simpson, Rebecca Bentley, Anne Marie Kavanagh

2017-09-01

OBJECTIVES: There is evidence of a causal relationship between disability acquisition and poor mental health, but the substantial ..

Is Housing a Health Insult?

Emma Baker, Andrew Beer, Laurence Lester, David Pevalin, Christine Whitehead, Rebecca Bentley

2017-06-01

In seeking to understand the relationship between housing and health, research attention is often focussed on separate components ..

Examining associations between area-level spatial measures of housing with selected health and wellbeing behaviours and outcomes in an urban context

Hannah Badland, Sarah Foster, Rebecca Bentley, Carl Higgs, Rebecca Roberts, Christopher Pettit, Billie Giles-Corti

2017-01-01

Adequate and affordable housing is a major social determinant of health; yet no work has attempted to conceptually map and spatial..

Commentary: DAGs and the restricted potential outcomes approach are tools, not theories of causation

Tony Blakely, John Lynch, Rebecca Bentley

2016-12-01

Does employment security modify the effect of housing affordability on mental health?

Rebecca Bentley, Emma Baker, Anthony LaMontagne, Tania King, Kate Mason, Anne Kavanagh

2016-12-01

This paper uses longitudinal data to examine the interrelationship between two central social determinants of mental health - empl..

Invited Commentary: Harnessing Housing Natural Experiments Is Important, but Beware Differential Misclassification of Difference in Difference

Rebecca Bentley, Emma Baker, Tony Blakely

2016-09-15

In this issue of the Journal, Reeves et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2016;184(6):421-429) present the findings of a natural experiment ana..

Housing affordability and residential mobility as drivers of locational inequality

Emma Baker, Rebecca Bentley, Laurence Lester, Andrew Beer

2016-07-01

This paper applies established methods from population geography to assess the impact of Australia's emerging housing affordabilit..

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

Andrew Beer, Rebecca Bentley, Emma Baker, Kate Mason, Shelley Mallett, Anne Kavanagh, Tony LaMontagne

2016-06-01

Housing, employment and economic conditions in many nations have changed greatly over the past decades. This paper explores the wa..

Housing tenure and affordability and mental health following disability acquisition in adulthood

Anne M Kavanagh, Zoe Aitken, Emma Baker, Anthony D LaMontagne, Allison Milner, Rebecca Bentley

2016-02-01

Acquiring a disability in adulthood is associated with a reduction in mental health and access to secure and affordable housing is..

Poor housing quality: Prevalence and health effects

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

2016-01-01

Housing is a central component of productive, healthy, and meaningful lives, and a principle social determinant of health and well..