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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

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

• Honorary Research Fellow - Health Economics Research Unit (HERU), University of Aberdeen

Research

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.)

Teaching

• Macroeconomic Analysis
• Business Forecasting

Recent publications

2012

• 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

• Accounting for the dead in the longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequalities, (with Paul Allanson and Ulf Gerdtham), Journal of Health Economics, 2011, Vol. 20 (5), p1113-23.
• The potential cost-effectiveness of general practitioner delivered brief intervention for alcohol misuse: Evidence from rural Australia , (with Hector Jose Navarro, Anthony Shakeshaft and Christopher Doran), Addictive Behaviors, 2011, Vol. 36 (12), p1191-98.
• Willingness to pay to reduce alcohol-related harm in Australian rural communities, (with Christopher Doran and Anthony Shakeshaft), Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, 2011, Vol 11 (3), p351-63.

2010

• On Measurement of Avoidable and Unavoidable Cost of Alcohol: An Application of Method for Estimating Costs Due To Prior Consumption (with Johan Jarl, Ulf-G Gerdtham and Anne Ludbrook), 2010, Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, Vol 7, p2881-2895
  
  
• Longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequality, (with Paul Allanson and Ulf Gerdtham), Journal of Health Economics, 2010, vol. 29, p.78-86.
  
  
• The Relationship between Risky Alcohol Consumption, Crime and Traffic Accidents in Australian Rural Communities, (with Christopher Doran, Anthony Shakeshaft and Rob Sanson-Fisher), Addictive Behaviors, 2010, Vol. 35, Issue 4, p359-362
  
  

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.
  
  

For working papers and other publications please refer to the RePEc website