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Browse a Gateway

Next, you can try browsing gateways to online health statistics, which can help guide you to likely sources of the information that you are seeking.

Gateways provide a good starting point when looking for statistics. Also called subject directories, meta-sites, and portals, gateways are a collection of internet resources organized by subject and category. Gateways are useful because they represent someone’s effort to find and evaluate good resources on a given topic. Browsing gateways saves the time and effort you might spend sifting through thousands of results from a search engine like Google. An example of a gateway is CDC Wonder. CDC wonder “provides a single point of access to a wide variety of reports and numeric public health data”. You can find accurate, reliable information organized into topics on this site.

Examples of Gateways include:

• ChildStats.gov
• Faststats
• FedStats
• Gateway to Data and Statistics (Health and Human Services)
• Health Services and Sciences Research Resources (National Library of Medicine)
• MedlinePlus
• Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
• Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan)