Asst. Prof. Diana Pacheco Barzallo, PhD
Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation and Healthy Ageing
T +41 41 939 65 52 • Alpenquai 4, Room 12 • diana.pacheco@unilu.ch
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Diana holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Neuchatel (2013) and a MSc. in Economics from the University of Lausanne (2008), with a specialization in Applied Econometrics. After her PhD studies, Diana worked as Scientific Collaborator on projects focusing on Impact Evaluation and Behavioral Economics. From 2015 to 2020, she was as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Swiss Paraplegic Research in the Health Services Research Unit on projects intended to evaluate the living situation of people with long-term health conditions.Diana teaches at the University of Lucerne in the MA. of Health Sciences, and at the University of Neuchatel in the MSc. in Applied Economics.
Publications
- Pacheco Barzallo, D., Schnyder, A., Zanini, C., & Gemperli, A. (2024). Gender differences in family caregiving. Do female caregivers do more or undertake different tasks? BMC Health Services Research. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-11191-w
- Sabariego, C., Ehrmann, C., Bickenbach, J., Pacheco Barzallo, D., Schedin Leiulfsrud, A., Strom, V., … Stucki, G. (2023). Ageing, functioning patterns and their environmental determinants in the spinal cord injury (SCI) population: A comparative analysis across eleven European countries implementing the International Spinal Cord Injury Community Survey. PLoS One, 4. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284420
- Ruoss, M., Brach, M., & Pacheco Barzallo, D. (2023). Labor market costs for long-term family caregivers: the situation of caregivers of persons with spinal cord injury in Switzerland. BMC Health Services Research, 1, 676 ff. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09565-7
- Oña, A., Athanasios, K., Tederko, P., Escorpizo, R., Arora, M., Sturm, C., … Barzallo, D. P. (2023). Unmet healthcare needs and health inequalities in people with spinal cord injury: a direct regression inequality decomposition. International Journal for Equity in Health, 1, 56 ff. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-023-01848-z
- Pacheco Barzallo, D., Hernandez, R., Brach, M., & Gemperli, A. (2022). The economic value of long-term family caregiving: The situation of caregivers of persons with spinal cord injury in Switzerland. Health and Social Care in the Community, 30 (5), 2297–2307. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13668
- Oña, A., Strøm, V., Lee, B.-S., Le Fort, M., Middleton, J., Gutenbrunner, C., & Pacheco Barzallo, D. (2021). Health inequalities and income for people with spinal cord injury. A comparison between and within countries. SSM- Population Health. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100854
- Pacheco Barzallo, D., Köhn, S., Tobler, S., Délitroz, M., & Gemperli, A. (2021). Measuring patient satisfaction in acute care hospitals: nationwide monitoring in Switzerland. The Journal of Evidence and Quality in Health Care. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zefq.2021.07.001
- Pacheco Barzallo, D., Oña, A., & Gemperli, A. (2021). Unmet health care needs and inequality: A cross- country comparison of the situation of people with spinal cord injury. Health Services Research. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10. 1111/1475-6773.13738
- Gemperli, A., Rubinelli, S., Zanini, C., Huang, J., Brach, M., & Pacheco Barzallo, D. P. (2020). Living situation of family caregivers of persons with spinal cord injury. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine.
- Huang, J., Pacheco Barzallo, D. P., Rubinelli, S., Münzel, N., Brach, M., & Gemperli, A. (2020). Professional home care and the burden of care for family caregivers of people with spinal cord injury: a cross-sectional survey. International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnsa.2020.100014
- Pacheco Barzallo, D., Gross-Hemmi, M., Bickenbach, J., Juocevicius, A., Popa, D., Karunia Wahyuni, L., & Strøm, V. (2020). Quality of life and the health system: A 22-country comparison of the situation of people with spinal cord injury. Arch Phys Med Rehabilitation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2020.04.030
- Huang, J., Pacheco Barzallo, D., Rubinelli, S., Münzel, N., Brach, M., & Gemperli, A. (2019). What influences the use of professional home care for individuals with spinal cord injury? A cross-sectional study on family caregivers. Spinal Cord, (57(11)), 924–932.
- Pacheco Barzallo, D. (2018). Place of residence & financial hardship: the situation of people with spinal cord injury. International Journal for Equity in Health. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-018-0818-9
- Pacheco Barzallo, D. (2018). Spillover effects of long-term disabilities on close family members. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy. https://doi.org/doi: 10.1007/s40258- 018-0391-9. PMID
- Pacheco Barzallo, D., Pacheco Barzallo, A., & Narvaez, E. (2018). The 2016 earthquake in Ecuador: Zika outbreak after a natural disaster. Health Security. https://doi.org/doi: 10.1089/hs.2017.0099
- Pacheco Barzallo, D., & Gross-Hemmi, M. (2017). The cross-cultural societal response to SCI: health and related systems. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. https://doi.org/doi: 10.1097/PHM.0000000000000664
