Throughout the 2016 campaign President-elect Donald Trump reached out to voters who felt the system didn't work for them. They were crucial to his November victory.

But the challenges those voters face is about more than just economics and government policy, it cuts all the way to the physical health of their communities.

People who live in Trump's most supportive communities feel they are not as healthy as the nation as a whole and people in their communities are more likely to die from a drug or alcohol overdose, according to data from the Gallup and the Centers for Disease Control analyzed by the American Communities Project.

Meet The Press merged data from three groups of counties that Trump won by more than 20 points – Graying America, Evangelical Hubs and Working Class Country. Those counties carry some common traits. They are more rural than the other places and tend to have lower incomes and lower college education rates.

There are 1024 counties in that merged group. Trump won 986 of them. And they look very different from the country on some key health measures.

More than 28% of the people in those counties said they have health problems that prevent them from doing things people their age normally can do. In some of those places that was much higher, well over 30%. That's compared to a national average figure of roughly 22%, according to Gallup surveys conducted in the 3rd quarter of 2016.

Those are self-diagnoses, of course, and respondents could be referring to anything from hard knee or back pain to diabetes. But the "health problems" question is fairly consistent across the counties Trump won. The counties Clinton won tended to have fewer than average people citing "health problems" that affected their lives.