Mingshan Lu

Department of Economics, The University of Calgary, Canada

Mingshan Lu, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Calgary, where she has been on the faculty since 1997, after earning her MA and Ph.D. in economics from Boston University. She is an Alberta Heritage Population Health Investigator, since 1999; a fellow at the Institute of Health Economics in Alberta; and holds an adjunct Associate Professor appointment at Department of Community Health Sciences at University of Calgary.

Main research interests include:
- Health Care Financing and Economic Incentive
- Design and Impacts of Health Care Payment Systems
- Fund Allocation and Risk Adjustment in Health Care
- Disparities/Inequalities in Health and Health Care
- Economics of Substance Abuse and Mental Health.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Public Health & Epidemiology > Health Systems & Services Research (since 14 November 2005)

Links

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~lu/

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  Chipping away at health: more on the relationship between income and child health.
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  Privatization and its discontents--the evolving Chinese health care system.
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  Self-rated health among foreign- and U.S.-born Asian Americans: a test of comparability.
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  The influence of the labor market on German health care reforms.
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  Selection of treatment under prospective payment systems in the hospital sector.
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