Ministry of Health (Argentina)

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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]

Ministry of Health
Ministerio de Salud

Ministry of Public Works Building, now the headquarters of the Ministry of Health
Ministry overview
Formed1949; 75 years ago (1949) (first creation)
Preceding Ministry
  • Secretariat of Public Health
JurisdictionGovernment of Argentina
HeadquartersMinistry of Public Works Building, Av. 9 de Julio 1925, Buenos Aires
Annual budget$ 70,680,000 (2020)[2]
Minister responsible
Websiteargentina.gob.ar/salud

References[change | change source]

  1. 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.
  2. "¿Qué hace el Presupuesto por vos?". Ministerio de Hacienda (in Spanish). 2017. Archived from the original on 16 September 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2017.