Mingshan
Lu
B.Eng (MIS) , MA/PhD (Economics)
Research Interests
- Organization, Financing, and Provision in
Health Care
- Design and Impacts of Health Care Payment
Systems
- Fund Allocation and Risk Adjustment in
Health Care
- Economics of Substance Abuse and Mental
Health
- Disparities/Inequalities in Health and
Health Care
- Health Sector Reform in China
Research Papers
Work-in-progress
- Eggleton, Karen, Randall Ellis, and
Mingshan Lu, Risk
Adjustment, Innovation, and Prevention, submitted to Canadian Journal of Economics.
- Eggleton, Karen, Mingshan Lu,
Jian Wang, Jing Zhang, and Hude Quan, Comparing Public and Private
Hospitals in China: Evidence from Guangdong, submitted to BMC Health
Services Research.
- Lu, Mingshan, and Elizabeth Savage, Does
supplementary private insurance reduce pressure on the public system?
Evidence from Australia, under resubmission request, Health Economics.
- “A systematic review of interventions to
increase cancer screening uptake among Asian women,” joint with Sabine
Moritz, Lindsay Sykes, Diane Lorenzetti, Sharon Strauss, and Hude Quan,
July 2009.
- “Association between preferred language of
service and enrolment for children’s mental health services,” joint with
Emmanuel Ngwakongnwi, Elizabeth Fradgley, David Cawthorpe, and Hude Quan,
May 2009.
Publications
- Lien, Hsienming, Mingshan Lu, Ching-to
Albert Ma, and Thomas G. McGuire, Treatment Progress and Patient
Compliance in Alcohol Therapy, forthcoming, Journal of Health Economics.
- Eggleston, Karen, Yu-Chu Shen, Mingshan
Lu, Congdong Li, Jian Wang, Zhe Yang, and Jing Zhang, Soft budget
constraints in China: Evidence from the Guangdong hospital industry, International Journal of Health Care
Finance and Economics, 2009, 9(2):
233-242. DOI 10.1007/s10754-009-9067-1 http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s10754-009-9067-1
- Eggleston, Karen, Mingshan Lu, Congdong
Li, Jian Wang, and Zhe Yang, Physician Payment Incentives, Cost and
Quality of Hospital Services: Evidence from Guangdong, China, 2008
forthcoming, China Labor Economics.
- Lu, Mingshan, Jing Zhang, Jin Ma, Bing Li,
and Hude Quan, Child Health Insurance Coverage: A Survey among temporary
and permanent residents in Shanghai, BMC
Health Services Research 2008, 8:238.
- Jing Shi, Meina Liu, Qiuju Zhang, Mingshan
Lu, and Hude Quan, Male and Female Adult Population Health Status in
China: A Cross-Sectional National Survey, 2008, BMC Public Health 8: 277.
- Ma, Jin, Mingshan Lu, and Hude Quan, From
A National, Centrally Planned Health System To A System Based On The
Market: Lessons From China, 2008, Health
Affairs 27 (4): 937-948.
- Liu, Meina, Qiujiu Zhang, Mingshan Lu,
Churl-Su Kwon, and Hude Quan, 2007, Urban
and Rural Disparity in Health Services Utilization in China, Medical Care 45, no.8: 767-774.
- Pinka Chatterji, Pinka, Margarita Alegria,
Mingshan Lu, and David Takeuchi, 2007, Psychiatric Disorders and Labor
Market Outcomes: Evidence from the National Latino and Asian American Study
(NLAAS), Health Economics 16(10): 1069-1090.
- Lu, Mingshan, and Ching-to Albert Ma,
2006, Financial Incentives and
Gaming in Alcohol Treatment, Inquiry
43(1): 34-53.
- Li, Bing, Hude Quan, Adrew Fong, and Mingshan
Lu, 2006, Assessing Accuracy of Record Linkage
between Canadian Administrative Data and Vital Statistics, Biomed
Central Health Services Research 6(48).
- Currie, Gillian, Cam Donaldson, and
Mingshan Lu, 2003, What Does Canada Profit from
the For-Profit Debate in Health care? Canadian Public Policy 29
(2): 227-251 (Abstract)
- Lu, Mingshan, Ching-to Albert Ma, and
Lasheng Yuan, 2003, Risk
Selection and Matching in Performance-Based Contracting, Health
Economics 12 (5): 339-354.(Abstract)
- Lu, Mingshan, and Ching-to Albert Ma, Consistency in Performance Evaluation Reports and
Medical Records, 2002, Journal of Mental Health Policy and
Economics 5 (4): 141-152.(Abstract)
- Lu, Mingshan, and Thomas G. McGuire, 2002,
The Productivity of Outpatient Treatment for Substance Abuse, The
Journal of Human Resources 37 (2): 309-355.(Abstract)
- Adair CE, Wild TC, Joyce AS, McDougall GM,
Gordan MD, Costigan N, Beckie A, Mitton CR, Beausejour P, Lu M, 2001,
Development of a Measure of Perceived Continuity of Care for Persons with
Severe Mental Illness. Proceedings of the 2001 Congress of Epidemiology,
- Lu, Mingshan, and Cam Donaldson, 2000,
Performance-Based Contracts and Provider Efficiency: The State of the Art,
invited leading article, Disease Management and Health Outcomes 7(3):
127-137. (Abstract)
- Lu, Mingshan, 1999, Separating the
"True Effect" from "Gaming" in Incentive-Based
Contracts in Health Care, Journal of Economics & Management
Strategy, vol 8 no 3: 383-432. (Abstract)
- Lu, Mingshan, 1999, The Productivity of
Mental Health Care: An Instrumental Variable Approach, Journal of
Mental Health Policy and Economics, volume 2, issue 2: 59-71. (Abstract)
- Emery, Herb, Chris Auld, and Mingshan Lu,
Paying for Physician Services in
Books and
Book Chapters
- Lu, Mingshan, and Egon Jonsson (editors),
2007, “Financing Health Care New
Ideas for a Changing Society”, Wiley-VCH.
- Lu, Mingshan, 1996, "Taiwan's
Experience on Hospital Privatization: Empirical Evidence," in Taiwan
Experience and Development Strategy of Both Sides of the Strait, China
Economics Press, Beijing, pp346 359.
- Lu, Mingshan, and Lasheng Yuan, 2003,
"Canadian Economics," in Chen Qien (ed.) Canadian Social
Sciences, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Press, Beijing, pp236-248.
