Samantha Peralta
Biographic Data
| ID | 283830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samantha Peralta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samantha |
| FAMILY NAME | Peralta |
| SIGNATURE | PERALTA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3516-2339 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bridging work: Community health workers’ role as a continuum of building, guiding, sustaining and transforming the path to health equity
Community Health Workers (CHW) are commonly conceptualized as a 'bridge' that connects the community to health-related systems and resources for which they have historically and contemporarily experienced systemic barriers to accessing. Nonetheless, the nuances of the bridge role remain underexamined. The bridge metaphor, by the static nature of a bridge, can overlook the dynamic and relational aspects of CHWs' work beyond simple liaison function…
Structural supports and challenges for community health worker models: Lessons from the Covid-19 response in Orange County, California
Public health relied on community health workers (CHWs) during the COVID-19 pandemic to connect with the most vulnerable communities, which saved lives and addressed inequities. Understanding the structural factors that supported and hindered the success of CHWs is essential for building a stronger public health infrastructure in the future. We analyzed semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 15 institutional representatives and policymakers wh…
Each one of us did the best we could for the community, while also supporting each other”: Community residents’ perspectives on community health worker (CHW) response during the Covid-19 pandemic - a …
Engaging community members is crucial for comprehensively understanding the CHW model. Given the enormous ongoing community challenges post-pandemic, these findings call for increased CHW presence, additional support and resources for health and socioeconomic needs, and improved information dissemination to bolster community resilience. Findings center mutual aid, emphasizing the importance of supporting communities in this crucial work. Addition…
Reflecting on the Backstage and Frontstage of Community-Based Participatory Research: Ethics and Collaboration in the Catalyst Study
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is critical for promoting health equity through the incorporation of equitable decision-making and participatory processes into health equity research. Yet, research processes often fail to align with community realities. Drawing on Goffman's frontstage-backstage framework, this paper examines how a community-academic partnership navigated and negotiated processes to support ethical inclusion of commu…
Community Activation to TrAnsform Local sYSTems (Catalyst): A Qualitative Study Protocol
Community Health Workers, promotores, and navigators (henceforth, CHWs) emerged as critical members of the public health workforce addressing social, economic, and health inequities worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. While there is increased appreciation for and utilization of CHW models, and recognition of the importance of tailoring and innovating these models during the pandemic, few studies have examined the processes of change by which CHW m…
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment
The way people absorb and process politically relevant information is central to their subsequent political behaviour (in terms of turnout and vote choice). Nonetheless, little is known about how young voters – who might be more impressionable than more experienced voters – respond to the provision of such information. In this article, we design a between-subject randomised controlled trial that exposes a sample of university students to positive…
The virus that devastated tourism: The impact of covid-19 on the housing market
Regional and sectorial impacts of the Covid‐19 crisis: Evidence from electronic payments
We use novel and comprehensive monthly data on electronic payments, by municipality and sector, together with cash withdrawals, to study the impact of Covid‐19 in Portugal. Our difference‐in‐differences event study identifies a causal decrease of 17 and 40 percentage points on the year‐on‐year growth rate of overall purchases in March and April 2020. We document a stronger impact of the crisis in more central and more urban municipalities, due to…
Who seeks reelection: Local fiscal restraints and political selection
The proximity-concentration trade-off with profit shifting
Coordination of capital taxation among asymmetric countries
Should countries control international profit shifting
Factor endowments and welfare levels in an asymmetric tax competition game
Economic Theories of Voter Turnout
The rationality of voting is the Achilles' heel of rational choice theory in political science. (Aldrich, 1997) In modern democracies thousands of citizens are eligible to vote in each election. An individual vote cast in such an election will conceivably have a negligible effect on its outcome. This leads to three interesting paradoxes: (i)The voting paradox Why would the rational individual bother to spend time and ;resources to become well inf…
Economic Theories of Voter Turnout
The rationality of voting is the Achilles' heel of rational choice theory in political science. (Aldrich, 1997) In modern democracies thousands of citizens are eligible to vote in each election. An individual vote cast in such an election will conceivably have a negligible effect on its outcome. This leads to three interesting paradoxes: (i)The voting paradox Why would the rational individual bother to spend time and ;resources to become well inf…
Community Activation to TrAnsform Local sYSTems (Catalyst): A Qualitative Study Protocol
Community Health Workers, promotores, and navigators (henceforth, CHWs) emerged as critical members of the public health workforce addressing social, economic, and health inequities worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. While there is increased appreciation for and utilization of CHW models, and recognition of the importance of tailoring and innovating these models during the pandemic, few studies have examined the processes of change by which CHW m…
Who seeks reelection: Local fiscal restraints and political selection
Factor endowments and welfare levels in an asymmetric tax competition game
Economic Theories of Voter Turnout
The rationality of voting is the Achilles' heel of rational choice theory in political science. (Aldrich, 1997) In modern democracies thousands of citizens are eligible to vote in each election. An individual vote cast in such an election will conceivably have a negligible effect on its outcome. This leads to three interesting paradoxes: (i)The voting paradox Why would the rational individual bother to spend time and ;resources to become well inf…
Should countries control international profit shifting
Factor endowments and welfare levels in an asymmetric tax competition game
Coordination of capital taxation among asymmetric countries
The proximity-concentration trade-off with profit shifting
Who seeks reelection: Local fiscal restraints and political selection
The virus that devastated tourism: The impact of covid-19 on the housing market
Regional and sectorial impacts of the Covid‐19 crisis: Evidence from electronic payments
We use novel and comprehensive monthly data on electronic payments, by municipality and sector, together with cash withdrawals, to study the impact of Covid‐19 in Portugal. Our difference‐in‐differences event study identifies a causal decrease of 17 and 40 percentage points on the year‐on‐year growth rate of overall purchases in March and April 2020. We document a stronger impact of the crisis in more central and more urban municipalities, due to…
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment
The way people absorb and process politically relevant information is central to their subsequent political behaviour (in terms of turnout and vote choice). Nonetheless, little is known about how young voters – who might be more impressionable than more experienced voters – respond to the provision of such information. In this article, we design a between-subject randomised controlled trial that exposes a sample of university students to positive…
Community Activation to TrAnsform Local sYSTems (Catalyst): A Qualitative Study Protocol
Community Health Workers, promotores, and navigators (henceforth, CHWs) emerged as critical members of the public health workforce addressing social, economic, and health inequities worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. While there is increased appreciation for and utilization of CHW models, and recognition of the importance of tailoring and innovating these models during the pandemic, few studies have examined the processes of change by which CHW m…
Structural supports and challenges for community health worker models: Lessons from the Covid-19 response in Orange County, California
Public health relied on community health workers (CHWs) during the COVID-19 pandemic to connect with the most vulnerable communities, which saved lives and addressed inequities. Understanding the structural factors that supported and hindered the success of CHWs is essential for building a stronger public health infrastructure in the future. We analyzed semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 15 institutional representatives and policymakers wh…
Each one of us did the best we could for the community, while also supporting each other”: Community residents’ perspectives on community health worker (CHW) response during the Covid-19 pandemic - a …
Engaging community members is crucial for comprehensively understanding the CHW model. Given the enormous ongoing community challenges post-pandemic, these findings call for increased CHW presence, additional support and resources for health and socioeconomic needs, and improved information dissemination to bolster community resilience. Findings center mutual aid, emphasizing the importance of supporting communities in this crucial work. Addition…
Reflecting on the Backstage and Frontstage of Community-Based Participatory Research: Ethics and Collaboration in the Catalyst Study
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is critical for promoting health equity through the incorporation of equitable decision-making and participatory processes into health equity research. Yet, research processes often fail to align with community realities. Drawing on Goffman's frontstage-backstage framework, this paper examines how a community-academic partnership navigated and negotiated processes to support ethical inclusion of commu…
Bridging work: Community health workers’ role as a continuum of building, guiding, sustaining and transforming the path to health equity
Community Health Workers (CHW) are commonly conceptualized as a 'bridge' that connects the community to health-related systems and resources for which they have historically and contemporarily experienced systemic barriers to accessing. Nonetheless, the nuances of the bridge role remain underexamined. The bridge metaphor, by the static nature of a bridge, can overlook the dynamic and relational aspects of CHWs' work beyond simple liaison function…
Economics (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Monetary economics (5 works) · Corporate Taxation and Avoidance (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Public Health Policies and Education (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Community health (3 works)