FastStats: A Public Health Statistics Database

Abstract

FastStats is a site that provides quick and easy access to public health statistics. The freely available website is maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. Users can browse alphabetically by topic and state/territory or search across the National Center for Health Statistics site. A description of the browsing capabilities and sample searches are presented.

KEYWORDS:

• CDC
• FastStats
• statistical data
• statistics

Notes

Comments and suggestions should be sent to the Column Editor, Emily Vardell ([email protected]).

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Emily Vardell

Emily Vardell, MLS ([email protected]) is a Doctoral Student, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 100 Manning Hall, CB #3360, Chapel Hill, NC 27599.