Table 2.

Public health agency workforce communications

A. Public health agency communicates with its stakeholders using:
	Email only	email + fax	email + social media	email + fax + social media	email + social media + SMS
Rural (n = 6)	1	3	0	2	0
Urban (n = 2)	0	0	1	0	0
B. In an emergency, public health agency communicates with its workforce using:
	Call/phone only	email + call/phone	email + SMS	email + SMS + phone
Rural (n = 6)	1	1	3	1
Urban (n = 2)	0	0	1	1
C. SMS is used in the workplace to communicate with:
	colleagues	patients	stakeholders	colleagues + patients	colleagues + stakeholders
Rural (n = 6)	2	1	1	2	1
Urban (n = 2)	0	1	0	0	1