INTERNET SITES FOR: 
VITAL STATISTICS, MORBIDITY & MORTALITY, DEMOGRAPHICS, AND RELATED 
INFORMATION 
 
C. Diann Weatherly 
The University of Alabama at Birmingham 
 
 
AIDS Related info 
gopher://gopher.niaid.nih.gov 
ftp://cdcnac.aspensys.com/pub/cdcnac 
 
CancerNet 
gopher://gopher.nih.gov:70/11/clin/cancernet 
 
Census Bureau 
http://www.census.gov 
gopher://gopher.census.gov 
 
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) 
http://www.cdc.gov 
 
Department of Health and Human Services 
http://www.os.dhhs.gov 
gopher://gopher.os.dhhs.gov 
 
Health Care Finance Administration  (esp. for Medicaid and Medicare info) 
http://www.ssa.gov/hcfa/hcfahp2.html 
 
Healthcare Events Calendar 1995 (lists conferences & seminars) 
http://www.uthscsa.edu/hostcal.html 
 
ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) 
(ICPSR is an organization from which UAB faculty and students can order data     from various sources, see 
Diann Weatherly for more information) 
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR_homepage.html 
gopher://tdis.icpsr.umich.edu 
 
Indian Health Service 
http://www.tucson.ihs.gov 
 
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) (safety sheets for chemicals) 
http://atlas.chem.utah.edu 
 
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) 
http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/mmwr.html 
gopher://odie.niaid.nih.gov 
 
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) (best for health statistics) 
http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/nchswww/nchshome.html 
 
National Center for Biotechnology Information 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 
gopher://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/repository 
 
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information 
http://www.health.org 
 
National Health Information Center 
http://nhic-nt.health.org 
 
National Heart, Lund and Blood Institute (NIH) 
gopher://gopher.nhlbi.nih.gov 
 
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases 
http://www.niddk.nih.gov/NIDDK_HomePage.html 
 
National Institute of Environmental Health Science 
http://www.niehs.nih.gov 
gopher://gopher.niehs.nih.gov 
 
National Institutes of Health (NIH) 
http://www.nih.gov 
gopher://gopher.nih.gov 
 
National Institute on Drug Abuse 
http://www.nida.nih.gov 
 
National Library of Medicine 
(Which includes HSTAT - technical assessments, clinical practice guidelines, etc.) 
http://www.nlm.nih.gov 
 
Occupational Safety and Health Administration 
http://www.osha.gov 
 
THOMAS (from Library of Congress; searches current bills, laws, etc.) 
http://thomas.loc.gov 
 
University of Michigan, Documents Center 
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/ 
   (Click on Statistics; then on Demographics) 
gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu 
 
University of Missouri  (population statistics) 
gopher://gopher.coin.missouri.edu 
follow path: ref & information center;  census information 
 
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 
(Under Government Information, has a number of documents, including Clinton's "National Health Security 
Plan") 
http://sunsite.unc.edu/nhs/NHS-T-o-C.html 
 
University of Pennsylvania (Population Studies Center) 
(population data as well as some health statistics) 
gopher://lexis.pop.upenn.edu 
 
World Health Organization (WHO) 
http://www.who.ch 
gopher://gopher.who.ch 
 
 
 
RELATED INTERNET GUIDES & SEARCHERS 
 
The Federal Web Locator (Villanova Center for Information Law & Policy) 
http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Agency/fedwebloc.html 
 
University of California at Riverside Infomine (offers searching by subject, keyword, title) 
http://lib-www.ucr.edu/govinfo.html 
 
Fedworld  (try the health links listed through this site) 
http://www.fedworld.gov/health.html 
 
Yahoo  (one of the many web searchers) 
http://www.yahoo.com 
 
 
 
STYLE MANUALS FOR CITING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS 
 
Garner, Diane L. and Diane H. Smith.  The Complete Guide to Citing Government Information Resources.  
Rev. ed. Bethesda, MD: Congressional Information Service, 1993.  (Sterne Library: Ref J 9.5 G37 1993; 
Counter 12A) 
 
Although the APA style manual will be the appropriate guide for most sources used by social work and 
social policy researchers, this guide will often act as a great aid in the challenge of citing government 
documents. 
 
Li, Xia and Nancy B. Crane.  Electronic Style: A Guide to Citing Electronic Information.  Westport, CT: 
Meckler Publishing, 1993.  (Sterne Library: Ref PN 171 D37 L5 1993 at Ref/Info Desk; Lister Hill Library: 
Ref WZ 345 L612e 1993) 
 
Several style manuals offer some advice on citing electronically published information, but none as 
completely as does this guide.  The authors use the citation style of the American Psychological Association 
(APA) for this guide; users of other style manuals, such as the MLA, will need to adapt suggestions and 
examples to that style. 
 
 
 
C. Diann Weatherly 
Documents Reference Librarian 
Mervyn H. Sterne Library 
The University of Alabama at Birmingham 
UAB Station 
Birmingham, AL  35294-0014 
(205) 934-6364 
dweather@uab.edu 
dweatherly@beowulf.mhsl.uab.edu 
 
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