Need current health statistics?

• No matter what the copyright date of the website is, check the references and sources listed for the information. 

• The website might have been updated recently, but that doesn't mean that the sources are current. 
• If there are no sources, then not only do you have no idea how old the information is, you also have no idea where it came from.
• Use search operators like site:.gov or site:.org to limit your search on Google.
• Figure out what organizations keep statistics on your topic, and then search their websites. Go straight to the source.
• Here are a few sites from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to get you started if you're stuck: 
• NIH: http://www.nih.gov/  
• NIH's MedlinePlus Health Topics: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthtopics.html  
• CDC's National Center for Health Statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/  
• CDC's FastStats: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/Default.htm  
• CDC's Data & Statistics by Topic: http://www.cdc.gov/DataStatistics/
• Scroll down for recent Uxbridge statistics from the 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Survey: https://sites.google.com/a/uxbridge.k12.ma.us/the-uxbridge-high-school/student-activities/the-coalition-for-a-community-of-caring