Public Health Response Systems In-Action: Learning from Local Health Departments’ Experiences with Acute and Emergency Incidents
Figure 2
Geographic distribution of participating agencies, by U.S. state.
This map shows the distribution of participating agencies across the United States. States with a greater number of participating local health departments (LHDs) are shaded a darker blue. States with the greatest number of participating health departments included California (12 LHDs), Ohio (8 LHDs), North Carolina (8 LHDs), Texas (7 LHDs), Florida (7 LHDs), and New Jersey (7 LHDs). Image developed using data from the National Weather Service and the SPMAP module for STATA 12 (College Station, TX: StataCorp LP) [33], [34].