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1. Speaker Notes: As a health financing advisor to the WHO my job duties include the cost assessment and analysis of health care services to countries around the world. This allows financing to take place where it is needed, and not where it is going to be wasted. I also analyze the utilization of such services, the access to those services, the equity of delivery of health care services in the regions or countries I am responsible for. As the financing advisor I take the technical lead in pilot programs for health care financing. This allows countries to be more self sustaining, by finding ways to finance needed improvements. I also provide support to the Ministry of Health in preparing the next five year strategic plan for the WHO. A strategic plan is the setting of defined goals and the means to achieve them in the specified time period. The WHO can refer back to this document to see their progress in achieving long term goals. Finally, I coordinate donor donations to the appropriate programs and monitor the progress of different programs in different sectors to determine which programs are succeeding the stated objectives of the strategic plan. Reference(s): (WHO, n.d.)
2. Speaker Notes: They Global Health Data exchange collects data on health care from around the world and compiles it into an easy to use database. It does this through over 7,000 different sources. Information is sanitized of personal identifiers and gives researchers and policy makers the information they need to make informed decisions. It was designed by the Institute for Health Metrics (IHM) inn March of 2011. Prior to this it was almost impossible to obtain global health data. There was a need to collect objective data for analysis by researchers and policy makers around the world. It was also believed that there should be easy access for those who need such information. By collecting objective world data, we can see how effective different programs are, or how dire a health concern is in a given region or country. This can help alert governments to potential problems that may weaken the economy. It can also identify emerging trends to better respond to a populations needs. Reference(s): (GHDx, n.d.)
3. Speaker Notes: The World Health Organization (WHO) seeks to improve health care around the world. The current goals address issues of quality, universal access, and cost containment. They direct and coordinate health care services around the world by aligning donors with services that need financing. The Global Data Exchange is a catalogue of over 7,000 data sources on health care information that is ready for researchers to access and evaluate the progress of different programs and interventions. They act as a surveillance group and monitor health outcomes and statistics of health globally. This allows policy makers, researchers, and other key stakeholders to obtain statistic to evaluate and make decisions about health care interventions. The GDx is the only such catalogue of its kind. The World Health Summit is a forum that brings together researchers, key government officials, and physicians to improve global health through education, research, and policy making. This allows stakeholders to tackle monumental health issues in a coordinated way. When everyone talks and begins to understand one another, solutions or strategies can be developed. Policy makers can understand what the problems facing their countries are, and doctors can understand what the government has resources for. It also allows non governmental agencies to be heard, as they are often more aware of local needs and challenges. Reference(s): (WHO, n.d.) (GHDx, n.d.) (WHS, n.d.)
4. Speaker Notes: Low and middle income countries face considerable challenges in getting even basic resources or technology to replace outdated or obsolete equipment. So some countries are looking at other sectors of the economy to innovate and improve the delivery of health care services. This can include the use of mobile technologies that provide information or treatment information to citizens who have cell phones. The internet is also allowing health care providers to connect with patients and to look up information that can aid in diagnosing and treating a patient. Cell phones have become very common, and relatively inexpensive compared to other technologies. High income countries have more access to modern equipment, medications, and procedures. However there are still financial restrictions to many health care facilities as well as regulatory and physical space limiters to just what technologies, medicines, and procedures a facility can acquire. Also not all technologies, procedures, or drugs are subsidized by insurance limiting availability. Finally, low and middle income countries often have to be creative in finding solutions to the health problems they face. This means thinking outside of the box and being open to using resources in different ways. Instead of focusing on what they do not have, they look at the resources they have and try to think of ways to better utilize them more effectively. Countries are unique in the resources they have to address health issues. One country may train traditional healers to be better educated in order to provide appropriate care to those in remote areas, while another might focus on sanitation and vaccination programs. The combination of resources and government priorities often shape the acquisition of technologies for use by health care providers. Reference(s): (WHO, n.d.)
5. Speaker Notes: The following are five international organizations that deliver health care services around the world. They are considered some of the best health care organizations in the world. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provides funding that focuses on disease, vaccines, nutrition, and other health services. The focus is on technology and innovation to solve some of the world’s most challenging health care problems. They hope to pave the way to new scientific discoveries that benefit different at risk populations around the world. This may include the use of technology to diagnose or treat patients, or new medications or procedures that make health care more accessible in remote regions. Care International is a humanitarian organization that works with women in poverty to improve the quality of life. They also provide relief aid in emergencies. Some of their programs include the prevention of HIV/AIDS, and the creation of better sanitation and access of clean drinking water. Many of these programs make women more able to sustain themselves, and their communities. Doctors without borders provides emergency medical aid to those who have experienced a man made or natural disaster. This has included combat zones around the world. They supply physicans and other trained medical staff as well as medical supplies to over sixty countries around the world that are experiencing an health care emergency. Program for the appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) is a not-for-profit organization that operates in seventy countries. It seeks to break cycles of poor health by developing solutions for emerging and epidemic diseases that can be used in low-resource settings. This allows low-income countries to address disease using the resources they have most readily available. This allows practitioners and government to respond more quickly in the case of a pandemic. The Red cross provides crisis relief, including combat zones around the world. It is also the world’s largest provider of blood to health care organizations, through its blood drives. They also educate the public and health care workers in first aid, cardio pulmonary resuscitation so they can render aid immediately to someone in crisis. They operate all over the globe, and in many different ways. Sometimes they offer on the ground support, and other times they coordinate donations so supplies get to those in need. Reference(s):
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7. The health care financing advisor plays a pivotal role in accessing the viability of health care financing for different programs across the world. In doing so the financial advisor helps improve global health by directing the right amount of resources to the most successful programs in line with the strategic plan. A key to accessing and evaluating such programs is made possible by the Global Health Data exchange. This depository collects global health data to serve as objective benchmarks for research by policy makers, researchers, physicians, and financiers. The WHO coordinates health care around the globe in order to improve quality, access, and equity of health care services and health care outcomes. The GHDx acts as a monitor of global health data, and alerts organizations of emerging health trends or infectious/non infectious disease around the world. The World Health Summit puts together stakeholders in order to coordinate actions, and to determine the strategic goals for world health. Technology is not evenly distributed around the world, and its distribution is influenced by the economic strength of a nation. Nether the less, countries can still utilize existing resources and technologies to improve health care. This may require creative thinking and problem solving, as well as alternative financing. Finally the access, quality, and costs of health care in different nations vary based on the health care system in place, and a country’s economic resources and strength.