(KAIR)--Some good news, but still room for improvement.

That's what Andrea Clements, executive director of live well, live Atchison says is the main take away after Atchison County's health rankings were released.

“This ranks all the counties against each other,” Clements said. “There's two specific measures, the health outcome and health factors.”

She said, for health outcome Atchison ranked 44 out of 102 and 89th out of 102 for health factors.”

Clements said the difference between the two is health outcomes deal with how long people live in Atchison County, while health factors are the specific factors of how people live including: diet, exercise, access to doctors etc.

That's the category where Atchison County scored low.

“Obviously, that's concerning and indicates we need to continue to do what we're doing,” Clements said.

Clements said the date is important to look at to see where Atchison County is in terms of overall health. However, the data used for the rankings is sometimes older and affected by what other counties are doing.

“So we like to look at it to get an understanding of what this information is telling us,” Clements said. “But then, kinda set it aside, keep our heads down and continue to focus on what we're focusing on. We know that over the long term, those three things Live Well focuses on: physical inactivity, tobacco free living and healthy eating, we know those have a tremendous impact on a variety of health and economic factors for our community.”

For more information about the health rankings, contact Live Well, Live Atchison.