A new report released on Wednesday ranks health factors in each of the more than 3,000 national counties and in turn assures that it can tell local policymakers how to help solve this problem. It has evidently come up with the fact that the least healthy counties are most of the times poor and rural, and the healthier ones are urban or suburban and upper-income.

In this report, counties from within a state have been compared instead of counties from state to state. The database apart from general health and the rate of premature deaths is coming up with standard measures for the factors responsible for premature deaths resulting from smoking, obesity and binge drinking to the unemployment rate, childhood poverty, air pollution and access to grocery stores.

Dr. Patrick Remington of the University of Wisconsin, Co-author of the new 50-state report with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation said, "This just paints a picture of areas for improvement. Rather than pointing the finger at the least healthy places in the country, which tend to be in the Southeast and Appalachia, this is a Polaroid snapshot that allows every state to look within their own boundaries, down to the county level".

High rate of premature deaths and poor health conditions of the 15% residents throw Menominee County, to the last rank. Whereas People in top-ranked Chester County, Pa., had much better health conditions.