Publications

​​ All Center for Community Research & Service publications are archived in the University of Delaware's Institutional Repository, UDSpace. We are pleased to share our publications with the public whenever possible. It is important to us to provide these resources so that others may use and apply knowledge we have gained, as well as build on our research where appropriate.

For some of our recent publications in the following areas:

Health Policy/Health Utilization Research/Social Determinants of Health

We focus on public health, health services utilization, and the social determinants of health.  Social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age such as poverty and access to health insurance.  

KIDS COUNT​

Comprehensive source for data & legislation on Delaware's children, youth and their families across categories of health, education, economic well-being and family/community.

• Bell, A., Gifford, K., Rashid, H., McDuffie, M.J. and Knight, E. (2020). “Power of Mom”: A Mixed Methods Investigation of Mothers’ Influence on Women’s Contraceptive Attitudes and Behaviors.  Maternal and Child Health Journal, January 2020.
  
• Rashid, H. (2019). Review of In Search of the Perfect Health System by Mark Britnell. Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, Vol. XXIV-3 
• McDonough, K. (2019). Social determinants of health: Life expectancy and the relationship with race, education, and poverty in Delaware.  Delaware Journal of Public Health,  February, 2019, 105-107.
• Gifford, K., McDuffie, M.J., Rashid, H., Knight, E., Boudreaux, M. (2018). Contraceptive method choice among Medicaid-enrolled women living in the same household. Conference Abstract. Contraception,  Vol. 98, No. 4, 348-349.
• Rosa, S. & Knight, E.K. (2018). Evaluating a complex health promotion intervention: case application of three systems methods, Critical Public Health, (20180523): 1-16,

• McDermott, S., Royer, J., Cope, T., Lindgren, S., Momany, E., Lee, J.C., McDuffie, M.J., Lauer, E., Kurtz, S., & Armour, B.  (2018). Using Medicaid Data to Characterize Persons With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Five U.S. States, American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Vol. 123, No. 4, 371–381

• Knight, E​., Benjamin, G., & Yanich, D. (2016​) Framing social determinants of health within the professional public health community: Research translation and implications for policy change., Journal of Applied Communication Research, 44(3): 256-275.​