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Item Delaware Focus: Health Inequities and Race in the First State(Partnership for Healthy Communities, Community Engagement Initiative, 2019-06) Knight, Erin; Codes-Johnson, Cassandra; McDonough, KalynThis policy brief describes to role of racism in creating and perpetuating inequities in health among Black communities in Delaware. It defines structural racism within a social determinants of health framework and highlights ways in which residential segregation is connected with poor living, working and social conditions that threaten good health.Item Sport in juvenile correctional facilities in the United States: a study of the scope and implementation(University of Delaware, 2021) McDonough, KalynThere is an extensive literature base exploring the positive benefits of sport on the growth and development of young people in school and community-based settings, which has found significant physical, psychological/emotional, intellectual, and social benefits for youth participating in thoughtfully constructed sport programs. Yet, there is much more limited systematic exploration into sport with young people in more non-traditional settings, such as juvenile justice settings, especially in the United States (US). Considering the appeal of sport among young people, findings that show high levels of sport participation among incarcerated youth, and poor health outcomes for youth who have been incarcerated; more research is needed in this area. The study focused on addressing two significant gaps in the literature related to (1) the landscape of this phenomenon across the US and (2) how such programs are implemented in secure facilities. Findings revealed that just over half (55.1%) of the sample of long- term, secure juvenile correctional facilities were operating sport programming revealing an inequity of access to sport for youth who are incarcerated. Among a sample of exemplar programs, it was found that implementation of the sport program largely occurred through factors at the facility-level, and policy (a community level factor) was not found to play a critical role in implementation, which could contribute to the variance in sport programming in juvenile facilities across the US. Findings suggest the need to draw upon and better integrate evidence from public health, juvenile justice and sport in order to promote equity in access and positive outcomes for youth. Such an integrative perspective has implications for future research as well as policy and practice.Item Structural Racism as a Fundamental Cause of Health Inequities(Partnership for Healthy Communities, Community Engagement Initiative, 2019-06) Knight, Erin; Codes-Johnson, Cassandra; Rendon, Sydney; McDonough, KalynThis policy brief describes the role of racism in creating and perpetuating inequities in health among Black communities in the United States. It defines structural racism within a social determinants of health framework and highlights ways in which residential segregation is connected with poor living, working and social conditions that threaten good health. This brief concludes with recommendations for advancing health equity through more concerted attention to structural racism.Item Utilizing an Equity, Place-Based Approach to Guide Our Collaborative Work on Health Equity in Delaware(Delaware Journal of Public Health, 2022-08) McDonough, KalynWhen it comes to a healthy community, the University of Delaware’s Partnership for Healthy Communities (PHC) understands that place matters. Through the culmination of lived experiences and empirical research, there is a well-established understanding that there are healthy communities and less healthy communities and that this is a result of varying conditions in these communities, conditions referred to as the social determinants of health (SDoH). These varying conditions have been produced and reproduced through political systems, economic and social policies, and social norms, and resulted in persistent health inequities. PHC utilizes this knowledge and evidence to inform the collaborations and investments with communities that have the most to gain in the state of Delaware. Through a description of its four strategic partnerships, we outline how an equity, place-based approach guides our collaborative work to achieve health equity in our state.