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Where Does Healthcare Cost the Most?

Description: 

In this project, students will map Medicare costs by local hospital service regions, explore the spatial patterns of costs to see where they're high and low, and perform a hot spot analysis to see where high and low costs are statistically significant. 

Learning Targets: 
Displaying and classifying data
Analyzing hot spots
Link: 
Where Does Healthcare Cost the Most? by ESRI
http://learn.arcgis.com/en/projects/where-does-healthcare-cost-the-most/
Author: 
GRACE Project
Content Area: 
Social Studies
Economics
Language: 
English
Resource Type: 
Project
Licensing: 
Creative Commons Licence
Grade: 
9-12
Tags: 
LearnArcGIS

What concepts or procedures are being explained or demonstrated in this lesson object?

In this project, students will map Medicare costs by local hospital service regions, explore the spatial patterns of costs to see where they're high and low, and perform a hot spot analysis to see where high and low costs are statistically significant. 

What was your experience, both successes and challenges, using this lesson object with your students?

Learn ArcGIS Projects are designed to introduce students to the wide variety of analysis tools built into ArcGIS Online. These tools are all available for free, but some do require a login to an ArcGIS Organization. 

ArcGIS Organizations can be created by teachers for their school by following the instructions provided here: http://learn.arcgis.com/en/projects/set-up-an-arcgis-organization/