Allen County dropped in its health rankings for 2015, negating the last couple of years of upward trending.
We are now ranked 87th of the 101 counties surveyed in Kansas, down from 79 for 2014.
It should be noted the data used in the nationwide study is from 2012, though that only makes last year’s gains all the more puzzling. The County Health Rankings and Roadmaps is an annual study conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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