The power of partnerships: state public health department multisector collaborations in major chronic disease programme areas in the United States

Table 1 Interorganizational collaboration scores by programme area in a 2018 survey of SHD health promotion/chronic disease units, United States

Programme area	Total number of respondents	N^a	Collaborator heterogeneity score^b (± SD)
Cancer prevention and control	78	39	0.82 (0.24)
Obesity prevention and management, including physical activity, healthy eating, and obesity screening and management	75	40	0.97 (0.05)
Tobacco use prevention and control	61	36	0.93 (0.09)
Diabetes prevention and management	34	29	0.82 (0.10)
Cardiovascular disease and stroke prevention	42	24	0.78 (0.21)
Multiple health promotion/noncommunicable disease programme areas	156	46	0.82 (0.13)

^aThis N represents the final number of SHDs in each chronic disease programme area out of a total possible maximum of 50 states. In cases of multiple respondents in a programme area for a state, these were aggregated into one case
^bScore indicates probability (on a scale of 0 to 1) that any two randomly selected organization types collaborating with a SHD will be in different sectors. Therefore, the closer the value is to 1, the greater the heterogeneity a SHD will have among collaborating organization types

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