A national study puts Cannon County at number 37 out of Tennessee’s 95 counties when it comes to factors affecting health and life expectancy, including death rates, access to health care and healthy foods, economic and education factors, diet and smoking rates. The study, released in April by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, analyzes factors within four categories — health behaviors, clinical care, social and economic factors and physical environment — each of which contain several measures.
Coffee County ranks 48th in the study. Bedford County is 61st, Franklin County was 27th, Warren County was 73rd, and Rutherford County came in at number 2. Williamson was number 1 overall and Grundy County was at the bottom of the list at 95
