Virginia Department of HealthRoanoke County and Salem are close to the top while Roanoke City is near the bottom.  WFIR’s Timothy Martin has more on the 3rd annual County Health Rankings that were recently released by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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