Dr Rebecca Bentley, BBSc (Hons), PhD LaTrobe
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Background
Rebecca Bentley is an epidemiologist working in the field of area disadvantage and health. She is a Team Investigator on the Australian Health Inequities Program, an NHMRC funded Capacity Building project.
Rebecca is currently applying multilevel analysis, spatial methods and social networks analysis to researching health inequities. She has a PhD on socio-cultural determinants of contraception use and prior to joining the Key Centre Rebecca worked at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare in the Disease Registers Unit.
Research Interests
- Local environments and gender
- Area disadvantage, paid employment and health
- Socio-cultural determinants of contraception use
- Social networks analysis
Key Publications
Peer Reviewed articles
Bentley R and Kavanagh AM. (2008) Gender equity and women’s contraception use. Australian Journal of Social Issues. Autumn p. 65-80
Kavanagh AM and Bentley R. (2008) Walking: A gender issue? Australian Journal of Social Issues. Autumn p. 45-64
Bentley R, Kavanagh A, Subramanian SV and Turrell G (2008) Area disadvantage, socio-economic position and premature cancer mortality in Australia 1998 to 2000: a multilevel analysis. Cancer Causes and Control. 19: 183-193.
Kavanagh AM, Bentley R, Turrell G, Broom DH, Subramanian SV. Does gender modify associations between self-rated health and the social and economic characteristics of local environments? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2006; 60(6): 490-5
Other Publications
Bentley R and Kavanagh A (2007) Looking at contextual effects through Rose-coloured glasses: interpreting contextual effect in multilevel models. Australasian Epidemiologist. Vol 41 No. 1 p. 4-5.