Health Ministry

The Brazilian Health Ministry is assigned to promote, protect and recover health, to reduce disease rates, to control endemic and parasitic diseases, to improve health surveillance, as well as to provide Brazilian people with better life quality.

In short, the Brazilian Health Ministry is in charge of:

- national-level health policy;

- coordination and inspection of the Brazilian Single Health System;

- environmental health and actions to promote, protect and recover individual and public health, including Brazilian Indians and workers;

- health information;

- general preventive actions, health surveillance and health control at frontiers and sea, river and air harbors;

- health surveillance, especially of drugs, medicines and food;

- scientific and technological health-related research.

For more information about Health Ministry, access www.saude.gov.br