Ministry of Health (Argentina)
Argentinian ministry of health
The Ministry of Health (Spanish: Ministerio de Salud) of Argentina is a ministry of the national executive power that oversees, elaborates and coordinates the Argentine national state's public health policy. The ministry is responsible for overseeing Argentina's highly decentralized universal health care system, which according to 2000 figures, serviced over half of the country's population.[1]
| Ministerio de Salud | |
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 Ministry of Public Works Building, now the headquarters of the Ministry of Health | |
| Ministry overview | |
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| Formed | 1949 (first creation) |
| Preceding Ministry |
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| Jurisdiction | Government of Argentina |
| Headquarters | Ministry of Public Works Building, Av. 9 de Julio 1925, Buenos Aires |
| Annual budget | $ 70,680,000 (2020)[2] |
| Minister responsible | |
| Website | argentina.gob.ar/salud |
References
change- ↑ Barrientos, Armando; Lloyd-Sherlock, Peter (1 December 2000). "Reforming health insurance in Argentina and Chile". Health Policy and Planning. 15 (4). Oxford University Press: 417–423. doi:10.1093/HEAPOL/15.4.417. ISSN 0268-1080. PMID 11124245. S2CID 8804236.
- ↑ "¿Qué hace el Presupuesto por vos?". Ministerio de Hacienda (in Spanish). 2017. Archived from the original on 16 September 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2017.