Ministry of Health (Argentina)

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)[1]
Minister responsible
  • Mario Lugones
Child agencies
Websiteargentina.gob.ar/salud

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.[2]

Since 30 September 2024, the Minister of Health has been Mario Lugones, appointed by President Javier Milei.[3]

  1. ^ "¿Qué hace el Presupuesto por vos?". Ministerio de Hacienda (in Spanish). 2017. Archived from the original on 16 September 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Mario Lugones fue oficializado como nuevo ministro de Salud tras la salida de Mario Russo". 0221 (in Spanish). 30 September 2024. Retrieved 2 October 2024.