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Counties Ranked by Healthiness
County health officials are learning Wednesday where they lie in a list of statewide health rankings.

Of 102 counties in Illinois, Knox County is 74th when it comes to health factors. Neighboring Warren County, however, has a much better ranking of 45 and Peoria County is 43.

Michele Fishburn with the Knox County Health Department tells WGIL the large differences in numbers in just one region is not a big surprise.

"There's four components that go into the health factors, you have health behaviors, clinical care, social and economic factors, and physical environment and they each contribute a different percentage to the ranking overall. So you could have a variance in just one or two areas in one community and it could make a difference if it was a large enough variance, so really it's just the rankings, it's just their rates of health in their community."

The numbers were released as part of a study supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

In another ranking, health outcomes, or how long people live, Knox County fares much better in the middle of the list at 58.
03 31 11 by Newsroom
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