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Table 4 Characteristics of municipalities and policy sectors

From: How to improve collaboration between the public health sector and other policy sectors to reduce health inequalities? – A study in sixteen municipalities in the Netherlands

   

Public Health Sector

Social policy sectors (number of hours per week)

Physical policy sectors (number of hours per week)

Municipalitiesa

Number of municipalities

Number of inhabitantsb

Public Health (n = 14)

Education (n = 6)

Youth Affairs(n = 11)

Social Affairs (n = 8)

Care (n = 8)

Sport (n = 10)

Integration (n = 5)

Other (n = 6)

Housing (n = 5)

Safety (n = 8)

Spatial Planning (n = 5)

Mobility (n = 3)

Environment (n = 4)

Other (like neighbourhood) (n = 5)

Number of respondents c

Large with deprived neighbourhoods (>450.000 inhabitants)

3

747.093

32

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

32

-

28

-

25

-

4

 

582.951

40

-

16

20

40

36

-

20

-

-

-

-

-

-

6

 

475.681

-

-

22

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

1

Medium-sized with deprived neighbourhoods (50.000-200.000 inhabitants)

5

118.182

32

-

-

35

30

40

40

30

-

32

-

-

-

32

8

 

97.342

-

-

-

-

-

32

-

-

32

32

24

-

-

-

4

 

141.211

28

32

-

30

32

32

36

32

-

--

 

-

-

36

8

 

182.489

36

-

24

24

32

36

-

36

4

-

-

-

-

-

7

 

143.582

40

32

32

24

-

-

-

-

32

28

32

-

36

-

8

Medium-sized without deprived neighbourhoods (50.000-200.000 inhabitants)

3

116.878

8

-

28

-

28

36

-

24

36

-

-

-

-

-

6

 

140.648

36

-

29

-

-

-

-

-

-

36

-

-

18

-

4

 

183.270

26

-

24

22

32

25

36

24

-

-

-

32

-

36

9

Small without deprived neighbourhoods (<45.000 inhabitants)

5

44.472

16

32

-

-

24

-

-

-

-

8

26

40

-

32

7

 

41.132

24

24

18

-

-

24

40

-

-

34

-

-

-

12

7

 

28.022

24

32

32

-

-

30

40

-

-

36

-

-

18

-

7

 

32.243

24

26

10

24

36

22

-

-

-

22

-

-

-

-

7

 

23.765

19

-

18

24

-

-

-

-

-

-

40

40

-

-

5

Average

  

28

30

23

25

32

31

38

28

27

27

30

37

24

30

 

Total

n = 16

               

n = 98

  1. aA previous study of the sixteen Dutch municipalities discussed the characteristics of these municipalities [16]
  2. bStatistics Netherlands (CBS): number of inhabitants in the period of the study (2009–2010)
  3. cNumber of respondents that stated that they were involved in collaborating on reducing health inequalities