HEALTH ECONOMIST FOR THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION Health economist for the World Health Organization. Name Date

DUTIES OF HEALTH ECONOMIST  There are various job duties as a health economist, a health financing advisor working for the World Health Organization.  Health economists has different responsibilities in helping medical facilities, as well as, medical programs become economically efficient and effective in order to keep profitability high.  After specializing in health economics, one can also become health services administrators, public health program administrators and research scientists.  While working in the public health, health economists is expected to apply economic principles in order to figure out different matters such as those that involve the most economical successful way to vaccinate for a particular disease (Leroy & Savage, 2013).

DUTIES OF HEALTH ECONOMIST  The health economists also serve as advisers in providing the policymakers with information so that they can make sound decisions in regards to public health.  Other questions that a health economist should involve in answering are whether or not prevention employed in healthcare system is cheaper than a cure for a disease.  Health economists has also duty of predicting the economic impact of various pandemics in a given area.  This would help in managing diseases. Health economists also study the costs that are associated with the screening of illness such as cancer

DUTIES OF HEALTH ECONOMIST  They are also placed into research for cures for diseases that are associated with developmental disorders through comparing the costs of such researches to the costs of treating the disabled individuals.  They develop program goals, data systems and study methods on the Health programs and health care system in order to meet the objectives of health organization.  At the same time, health economist research and contact investigators in health economic analyses to guide effective application of data and analytic resources needed to deal with various illnesses.  The economist also provides suggestion on the health outcome measures for the treatment and prevention t effectiveness of disease.

DUTIES OF HEALTH ECONOMIST  The officer act as key focus on treatment of pandemics, prevention effectives, as well as, evaluation of issues such as international health programs, behavioral, clinical, and environmental interventions.  They also lead and direct various research plans on data investigation needed for the calculation of treatment of diseases such as HIV, illness costs that include productivity costs and health outcomes.  The economist, moreover, provides evaluation of proposed or current policies that are used to interpret studies’ findings such as the economic impact of such policies implementation needed for economy and health care system.  These are important in conceiving and directing the research program on health economic topics ( Canadian Standards Association, 2013 ).

THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE GLOBAL HEALTH DATA EXCHANGE (GHDX)  The GHDx was formed by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation that is IHME at the University of Washington. The program was launched in March of the year 2011 at the Global Health Metrics and Evaluations conference.  The GHDx has information about over 7,000 demographic, global health data and public health and sources. The GHDx was developed in order to address various key issue for the global and public health analysis.  The GHDx is current and the first data catalog available in the world and focuses on health related data at the global scale.  Its aim is to make global, as well as, public health data easy to find whenever there is need.  It was also formed to bring increased attention and enlightenment to the most valuable contributions and importance of data producers such as international organizations, national statistics agencies and ministries of health (Leroy & Savage, 2013).

HOW THE WHO, GHDX, AND THE WORLD HEALTH SUMMIT ARE INVOLVED IN WORLD HEALTH  The WHO is responsible for monitoring disease outbreaks, assesses the performance of the health systems around the globe and maintains world health program.  The GHDx provide global and public health data that are used in controlling disease.  On the other hand, The World Health Summit is pre-eminent international forum that influences the agenda for world health policy development hence involved in world health management.  The health care technology include Telemedicine/telehealth, Sensors and wearable technology and Pharmacogenomics/genome sequencing that are aimed at personalized medicine continues in order to edge closer to the forefront of the healthcare industry ( Canadian Standards Association, 2013 ).

THE 5 OF THE BEST HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE WORLD  The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) that serves as the regional field office for the WHO in the Americas. The United Nation Children's Fund (UNICEF) that provides non-administrative budget on health care. Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) that provides health aid to victims of war. Britain’s National Health Service and Aga Khan Foundation. The organizations are considered the best in the world because they provide extensive health services across various countries in the world (Leroy & Savage, 2013). France The French system combines the private and public sectors to provide universal health coverage to all Italy Italy provides universal health care its population with exercising control and government providing regulatory assistance. Oman Oman's health care system is based on the local districts and universal health care given to all citizens Costa Rica Public health insurance system is available to all legal residents and citizens.

REFERENCES  Canadian Standards Association. (2013). Commissioning of health care facilities: Health care technology. Rexdale, Ont: Canadian Standards Association.  Simons, T., Leroy, H., & Savage, G. T. (2013). Leading in health care organizations: Improving safety, satisfaction, and financial performance. Bingley, U.K: Emerald.