TABLE 1—

Local Public Health System Typology Used in Categorizing Local Health Departments: US Longitudinal Study of Local Public Health Systems, 2006

Type	No. (%)	Differentiation	Integration	Concentration
Concentrated comprehensive	50 (21.5)	Broad scope	Wide range of organizations contributes	Local health department shoulders much of the effort
Independent comprehensive	27 (11.6)	Broad scope	Narrow range of organizations contributes	Local health department shoulders much of the effort
Distributed conventional (most common)	72 (30.9)	Moderate scope	Moderate range of organizations contributes	Effort is distributed across participating organizations
Concentrated limited	42 (18.0)	Narrow scope	Narrow range of organizations contributes	Local health department shoulders much of the effort
Distributed limited	26 (11.2)	Narrow scope	Moderate range of organizations contributes	Effort is distributed across participating organizations

Note. We categorized the remaining 6.9% (n = 16) as “other.”

Source. Mays et al.²⁷