Dr. Antonella Bancalari

We study how a shift toward community-based primary care reshapes care patterns across levels of the health system in El Salvador.

We use death certificate and population data in Latin American countries to calculate mortality by rates by age, sex and educational attainment

We develop a taxonomy to categorize health systems in Latin American countries into four distinct groups based on their principal characteristics.

We compare health inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean across three key dimensions: socio-economic status, urban/rural residence, and sex.

We show that the redistribution of natural resource tax revenues to non-extractive municipalities stimulates economic activity in local economies.

This paper investigates the effects of alleviating remoteness constraints on access to quality maternal and newborn health care.

Focusing on the period from 2005 to 2015 in Peru, I investigate the social costs imposed by poor implementation of public infrastructure.

We implement a randomized controlled trial and a qualitative study to assess whether, and if so how, behavioral change can be sustained.