Grace specialises in health economics and applied health econometrics. Her main area of interest is in analysing the impact of risky behaviors in terms of individual health status as well as the aggregated macro-economic effect. In addition, she is interested in productivity analysis and how such tools can be used to get reliable estimates from healthcare data.

Semester 1 2009:
ECON7810 : Economic Evaluation and Health
ECON7460 : Health Economics [External]

Semester 2 2009:
ECON7460 : Health Economics 

Lordan G. (2009). “Are There Treatment Variations in Triage Outcomes Across Out of Hours Co-ops?”  Quality in Primary Care (Forthcoming)

Lordan G. (2008). “Considering Endogeneity, Quality of Care and Casemix-A Hierarchical Random Parameters Approach to Measuring Efficiency For Out of Hours Primary Care Services in Ireland.” Applied Economics (Forthcoming)

 Rodrigues L., Lordan G., Higgins C., Normand C., Roberts J. and Tam C. (2008). “The Economic Cost of Gastroenteritis in Ireland”  A report for SafeFood. 

Lordan G. (2007) "What Determines a patients’ treatment? Evidence from out of hours primary care co-op data in the Republic of Ireland."Health Care Management Science 10,3.

Lordan G. (2007) "Measuring efficiency in health care: an application to out of hours primary care services in the island of Ireland," Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers 07/08, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York.

Rodrigues L, Tam C, Lordan G, Normand C, Martin D and Higgins C (2006). "Let us not forget telescoping as a major risk of telephone surveys. "BMC Public Health 6:208.

Lordan G. and Normand C.  (2005)  “The Attitudes of General Practitioners towards Computerisation on the Island of Ireland” A Report for GPIT.