The global governance of antimicrobial resistance: a cross-country study of alignment between the global action plan and national action plans

Table 5 Comparison of regional patterns in NAP implementation and content

Regions	Mean implementation scores (total)	Mean syntactic overlap (percentage)	Mean content overlap scores (total)
WPRO	4.6	3.7	28.0
AFRO	4.4	6.3	29.9
EURO	4.3	4.5	25.3
EMRO	4.1	7.9	25.3
PAHO	4.0	7.0	27.7
SEARO	4.0	10.8	29.4

Legend: Sample of 59 NAPs; n = 59. Mean implementation score (total): 3–5; mean syntactic overlap (percentage): 0–100; mean content overlap score: 0–51. In descending order according to mean implementation score (total)

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