Table 3. LHD Characteristics versus Public Health Informatics Capacity (Low, Mid, High).

LHD Characteristic	Percent or Mean (SD)				Difference Between Groups
	Total	Low	Mid	High	Low vs. Mid	Low vs. High	Mid vs. High
Public Health Informatics Capacity	--	24.4%	20.4%	55.6%
Population Served:
< 50,000	47.7%	47.3%	57.6%	44.3%			**
50,000 – 499,999	39.4%	42.9%	38.0%	38.4%
≥ 500,000	12.9%	9.8%	4.4%	17.3%
Per Capita Expenditures ($):
Total	47.85	45.17	44.90	48.81
Local Sources	11.75	12.85	11.58	11.07
State and Federal Sources	19.43	18.83	18.67	19.99
Medicare/Medicaid Sources	9.60	6.13	3.21	12.18			**
Other Clinical Sources	2.52	2.68	3.29	2.21
Workforce:
Total FTEs per 10,000	5.5	5.0	5.4	5.9
Employs any Information Systems Personnel	37.4%	32.2%	20.0%	45.7%			***
Organization, Governance & Leadership:
Has Local Board of Health	70.0%	68.5%	73.9%	69.0%
Freestanding, not part of HHS Agency	27.1%	29.3%	23.0%	28.1%
Single county jurisdiction	75.4%	58.9%	79.4%	81.2%	**	***
LHD has authority to set/impose fees	71.6%	79.5%	76.5%	66.3%
Executive Director has Clinical Background	46.2%	32.1%	50.0%	51.0%	*	**
Governance type:
State	19.6%	25.0%	6.52%	22.0%			***
Local	72.3%	66.1%	90.2%	68.6%
Shared	8.1%	8.9%	3.3%	9.4%

* p < .05 ** p < .01 *** p < .001