Dennis Petrie

Contact:
d.j.petrie@dundee.ac.uk
Tel:+44 (0)1382 386164
Fax:+44 (0)1382 384691
Postal Address:
Economic Studies
University of Dundee
Perth Rd
Dundee
DD1 4HN
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Dennis was appointed as a SIRE lecturer in Health Economics at the University of Dundee in 2007. He has a dual degree, BEcon(Hons) majoring in econometrics and a BSc majoring in Mathematics and Chemistry from the University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. His PhD (UQ) was on the economics of alcohol in rural Australia. Apart his work on the economics of illicit drugs and alcohol he has also written on topics including the measurement of health inequalities, the production and efficiency of healthcare systems and has been involved in a number of economic evaluations of healthcare interventions.

External Affiliations

Dennis' research interests are Health Economics, Applied Econometrics, Economics of Alcohol, Economic Evaluation, Health Inequality and Efficiency of Health Care Systems. Member of Dundee Health Economics Group.

Current Research Grants/Awards

2011-2014
Chief Scientist Office (CSO) Scotland, Effective Feedback to Improve Primary Care Prescribing Safety (EFIPPS): a randomised controlled trial using ePrescribing data, £ 224,512, (with Guthrie, Bennie, Robertson, Ritchie, Treweek).
2010-2014
ESRC/MRC Interdisciplinary Scholarship, Supervisor for an MSc and PhD studentship on: Linking routine health and social datasets to analyse the impact of parental drug use and methadone treatment on child development, £ 69,136, (with McCowan and Baldacchino).
2011-2012
Scottish Government, Socio-economic costs of bereavement in Scotland, Dundee Component - £ 28,655 (in collaboration with colleagues from The Robert Gordon University, NHS Tayside and Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland and with support from University of Utrecht and University of York)
2009-2013
Chief Scientist Office (CSO) Scotland, Data-driven quality improvement in primary care, £ 974,645 (with Guthrie, Donnan, McCowan, Morris, Cunningham, Davey, Wyatt et al.)
2010-2012
Swedish Research Council, Estimating the avoidable cost of alcohol consumption in Sweden, 1,350K SEK (approx. £ 135,000) (with Gerdtham, Ludbrook et al.)
2010-2012
NHS Tayside, SUbstance Misuse Information - Tayside: "SUMIT", £ 300,000 (with Kidd, Montagna, McCowan, Baldacchino, Matthews, et al.)
  • Macroeconomic Analysis
  • Business Forecasting

Recent publications

2012

  • Can harms associated with high intensity drinking be reduced by increasing the price of alcohol?, (with Joshua Byrnes, Anthony Shakeshaft and Christopher Doran), Drug and Alcohol Review, 2012, forthcoming. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1465-3362.2012.00482.x
  • A cluster randomised stepped wedge trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a multifaceted information technology-based intervention in reducing high-risk prescribing of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and antiplatelets in primary medical care: The DQIP study protocol, (with Tobias Dreischulte, Aileen Grant, Peter Donnan, Colin McCowan, Peter Davey, Shaun Treweek and Bruce Guthrie), Implementation Science, 2012, 7: 24. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1186/1748-5908-7-24
  • On the choice of health inequality measure for the longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequalities, (with Paul Allanson), Health Economics, 2012, forthcoming. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hec.2803
  • The cost-effectiveness of tailored, postal feedback on general practitioners' prescribing of pharmacotherapies for alcohol dependence, (with Hector Navarro, Anthony Shakeshaft and Christopher Doran), Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2012 forthcoming. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2012.01.007
  • Tackling alcohol misuse: purchasing patterns affected by minimum pricing, (with Anne Ludbrook, Lynda McKenzie and Shelley Farrar), Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 2012, Vol. 10. (1), p51-63. http://dx.doi.org/10.2165/11594840-000000000-00000
  • An empirical approach to selecting community-based alcohol interventions: combining research evidence, rural community views and professional opinion, (with Anthony Shakeshaft, Christopher Doran, Courtney Breen and Rob Sanson-Fisher), BMC Public Health, 2012, Vol. 12:25. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-25
  • Joshua Byrnes, Dennis Petrie, Christopher Doran and Anthony Shakeshaft, 2012, The efficiency of a volumetric alcohol tax in Australia, (with Joshua Byrnes, Christopher Doran and Anthony Shakeshaft) Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, Vol. 10 (1), p37-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.2165/11594850-000000000-00000

2011

2010

2009

  • The Income-Climate Trap of Health Development: A Comparative Analysis of African and Non-African Countries (with Kam-Ki Tang and DS Prasada Rao), Social Science and Medicine, 2009, Vol. 69, Issue 7, Pages 1099-1106.
  • Non-Hierarchical Bivariate Decomposition of Theil Indexes (with Kam-Ki Tang), Economics Bulletin, 2009, Vol. 29 no.2 p919-28.
  • Alcohol industry and government revenue derived from underage drinking by Australian adolescents 2005 (with Christopher Doran, Anthony Shakeshaft and Wayne Hall), Addictive Behaviors (2009), Volume 34, Issue 1, p75-81.
  • Measuring health inequality with Realization of Potential Life Years (RePLY), (with Kam-Ki Tang and DS Prasada Rao), 2009, Health Economics, Volume 18, Issue S1, p55-75.

2008

  • The relationship between alcohol consumption and self-reported health status using the EQ5D: Evidence from rural Australia (with Christopher Doran, Anthony Shakeshaft and Rob Sanson-Fisher), Social Science & Medicine (2008), Volume 67, Issue 11, p1717-26
  • Households' willingness-to-pay for a motorcycle helmet in Hanoi, Vietnam. (with Pham Khanh, Le Thi Quynh, Jon Adams and Christopher Doran), Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 2008, Volume 6, Issue 2-3, p137-44.

 

 

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