Physical activity promotion in an urban district: Analyzing the mechanisms of interorganizational cooperation.

ABSTRACT: Past research has identified the importance of cooperation among community-based organizations from different sectors to address public health problems such as insufficient physical activity. However, little is known about how and why interorganizational cooperation occurs. The present study sought to analyze the structure and emergent patterns of interorganizational cooperation within a network promoting physical activity based in an urban district neighborhood of a city in Southwestern Germany. Survey data on cooperative relations among 61 network organizations and organizational attributes (e.g., possession of sport facilities) were collected. Social network analysis was applied to examine network properties and exponential random graph models were estimated to test hypotheses concernin

SUBMITTER: Wasche H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8592486 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature