Susan Mendez

Gender differences in physician decisions to adopt new prescription drugs.

Susan J Méndez, Anthony Scott, Yuting Zhang

Journal article  |  2021  |  Social Science and Medicine

Physician adoption of new technologies is a key issue for population health and the sustainability of the healthcare system. This ..

PARENTS WITH CHILDREN AT HOME REACH BREAKING POINT

Barbara Broadway, Susan Mendez, Julie Moschion

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

Parents are reporting high levels of mental stress amid the COVID-19 economic downturn, highlighting that we need new policies to ..

Help! High Levels of Parents’ Mental Distress

Barbara Broadway, Julie Moschion, Susan Mendez

Report  |  2020

Of the close to 5 million parents with children under 18 in Australia, 24 percent have reported high rates of mental distress sinc..

The falling growth in the use of private hospitals in Australia

Tianshu Bai, Susan Mendez, Anthony Scott, Jongsay Yong

Report  |  2020

Australia has a rich public-private mix of financing and provision of healthcare. Since mid-2015, the higher growth in out of pock..

Private or Public? The declining growth in the use of private healthcare in Australia

Tianshu Bai, Susan Mendez, Anthony Scott, Jongsay Yong

Report  |  2020

The past five years has seen a steady decline in private health insurance (PHI) membership in Australia. With rising premium price..

PARENTS OF SCHOOL-AGE KIDS DURING COVID-19? YES, YOU’RE STRESSED

Barbara Broadway, Julie Moschion, Susan Mendez

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

Behind closed doors: the surge in mental distress of parents

Barbara Broadway, Susan Mendez, Julie Moschion

Report  |  2020

The economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its subsequent restrictions has had an alarming effect on Australians' m..

The Future of Healthcare after COVID-19

Yuting Zhang, Anthony Scott, Judith Liu, Susan Mendez

Report  |  2020

Australia's health sector is the largest part of the economy at 10 percent of GDP (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2020..

Factors affecting general practitioners' decisions to adopt new prescription drugs - Cohort analyses using Australian longitudinal physician survey data

Y Zhang, SJ Méndez, A Scott

Journal article  |  2019  |  BMC Health Services Research

Background: We investigate factors affecting Australian general practitioners' decisions to adopt novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs..

Gendered choices of STEM subjects for matriculation are not driven by prior differences in mathematical achievement

Moshe Justman, Susan J Mendez

Journal article  |  2018  |  ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION REVIEW

Women's under-representation in high-paying jobs in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) mirrors their e..