LibGuides: Health Care System Toolkits: Socioeconomics of Health Care

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Healthcare Blue Book
This consumer-oriented website compares prices for surgery, hospital stays, doctor visits, medical tests by zipcode.

Massachusetts Health Connector
Allows users to compares quality/cost data by procedure for hospitals and medical groups in Massachusetts.
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey by US Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
Data on the cost and use of health care and health insurance coverage, as well as health care disparities.
Understanding health policy : a clinical approach by Thomas Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach
ISBN: 0071770526

Publication Date: 2012

Covers health policy as well as individual patients and caregivers and how they interact with each other and with the overall health system
The biology of disadvantage: socioeconomic status and health by Nancy E. Adler and Judith Stewart
ISBN: 1573317705

Publication Date: 2010

Research into the mechanisms of health disparities.
Hospitals : what they are and how they work by Don Griffin
Call Number: HHSL Book Stacks WX 100 G851h 2006

ISBN: 076372758X

Publication Date: 2006

Provides an overview of hospital infrastructure, as well as related developments in regulatory areas, technology and management practices

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