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The Ministry of Health.
The Ministry of Health of Chile (Spanish: Ministerio de Salud de Chile), also known as MINSAL, is the cabinet-level administrative office in charge of planning, directing, coordinating, executing, controlling and informing the public health policies formulated by the President of Chile. Notably, all employees pay 7% of their monthly income to FONASA, the funding branch of the Chilean Ministry of Health.
The present Minister of Health is Jaime Mañalich. The minister has two adjunts: the Undersecretary of Public Health (Spanish: Subsecretaria de Salud Pública), currently Liliana Jadue, and the Undersecretary of Assistance Networks (Spanish: Subsecretario de Redes Asistenciales), currently Luis Castillo.
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History
a FONASA sign. FONASA is the funding branch of the Ministry of Health.In 1808, the Committee of Vaccines (Spanish: Junta de Vacunas) was founded, and then in 1832 the Board of Directors of Hospitals (Spanish: Junta Directiva de Hospitales) began operations. Both organizations were precursors of what would become the modern institutions of public health. In 1907, a division charged with the administration of public hygiene was created under the Ministry of the Interior (Spanish: Ministerio del Interior). Then on October 14, 1924, this division was made into the cabinet-level Ministry of Hygiene, Social Assistance and Welfare (Spanish: Ministerio de Higiene, Asistencia y Previsión Social), with the same function (Decree No. 44, 1924). In 1927 all the ministries underwent an important restructuring; with these change it became the Ministry of Social Welfare (Spanish: Ministerio de Bienestar Social), and was charged with, as well as the coordination of public health policies, the investigation of the application of laws relating to society, public welfare, and social security.
In 1932, it was once again renamed, becoming the Ministry of Public Health (Spanish: Ministerio de Salubridad Pública), then the Ministry of Public Health, Social Assistance and Welfare (Spanish: Ministerio de Salubridad Pública, Asistencia y Previsión Social) in 1936, and later the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare (Spanish: Ministerio de Salud Pública y Previsión Social) in 1953.
In 1959, the ministry was divided into the Ministry of Public Health (Spanish: Ministerio de Salud Pública), the modern form of the ministry, and, assuming the functions regulating the welfare of Chileans, the Ministry of Work and Social Welfare (Spanish: Ministerio del Trabajo y Previsión Social).
Finally, from 1973 to 1979, the internal structure of the ministry, now simply the Ministry of Health, was reorganized, creating services such as the National Health Fund (Spanish: Fondo Nacional de Salud), or FONASA.
Organization
Currently under the Ministry are the following public institutions:
- Fondo Nacional de Salud (Spanish: Fondo Nacional de Salud, FONASA)
- Public Health Institute of Chile (Spanish: Instituto de Salud Pública de Chile, ISP)
- Center for Supply (Spanish: Centro de Abastecimiento, CENABAST)
- The Health Services in each region of the country are charges with the coordination, management, and development of the assistance networks and execution of the ministry's action.
Titulars
Ministers of Hygiene, Social Assistance and Welfare
Picture Name Entered Office Exited Office Notes Appointed by 
Alejandro del Río Soto-Aguilar October 17, 1924 January 23, 1925 September Junta José Santos Salas Morales January 29, 1925 October 10, 1925 Appointed by January Junta Reappointed by Luis Barros Borgoño Pedro Lautaro Ferrer Rodríguez October 10, 1925 December 23, 1925 Lucio Córdoba Labarca December 23, 1925 November 20, 1926 Emiliano Figueroa 
Manuel Rivas Vicuña November 20, 1926 February 22, 1927 Minister of the Interior Isaac Hevia Concha February 22, 1927 May 23, 1927 José Santos Salas Morales May 23, 1927 November 17, 1927 Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Ministers of Social Welfare
Picture Name Entered Office Exited Office Notes Appointed by Enrique Balmaceda Toro November 17, 1927 April 20, 1928 Interim Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Alejandro Lazo April 20, 1928 June 6, 1928 Luis Schmidt June 6, 1928 June 21, 1928 Interim Luis Carvajal Laurnaga June 21, 1928 August 5, 1930 Humberto Arce August 5, 1930 September 5, 1930 Ricardo Puelma Laval September 5, 1930 July 13, 1931 
Juan Esteban Montero Rodríguez July 13, 1931 July 22, 1931 Minister of the Interior and Social Welfare Héctor Boccardo Benvenuto July 22, 1931 July 22, 1931 Sótero del Río Gundián July 26, 1931 September 3, 1931 Appointed by Pedro Opazo Reappointed by Juan Esteban Montero Santiago Wilson Barrientos September 3, 1931 November 15, 1931 Manuel Trucco Sótero del Río Gundián November 15, 1931 June 4, 1932 Juan Esteban Montero Ministers of Public Health (First Creation)
Picture Name Entered Office Exited Office Notes Appointed by Oscar Cifuentes Solar June 5, 1932 June 17, 1932 Appointed by Socialist Junta Reappointed by Carlos Dávila Alfonso Quijano Olivares June 17, 1932 October 4, 1932 Javier Castro Oliveira October 4, 1932 December 24, 1932 Abraham Oyanedel Horacio Hevia Labbé December 24, 1932 May 7, 1933 Minister of the Interior and Public Health Arturo Alessandri Alfredo Piwonka Jilabert May 7, 1933 April 19, 1934 Minister of the Interior and Public Health Luis Salas Romo April 19, 1934 August 26, 1935 Minister of the Interior and Public Health Javier Castro Oliveira August 26, 1935 January 15, 1937 Ministers of Public Health, Social Assistance and Welfare
Picture Name Entered Office Exited Office Notes Appointed by 
Eduardo Cruz-Coke Lassabe January 15, 1937 September 15, 1938 Arturo Alessandri Luis Prúnes Rissetti September 15, 1938 December 24, 1938 Miguel Etchebarne Rioll December 24, 1938 December 25, 1939 Pedro Aguirre Cerda Salvador Allende Gossens December 25, 1939 April 2, 1942 Eduardo Escudero Forrastal April 2, 1942 August 15, 1942 Juan Antonio Rios Miguel Etchebarne Rioll August 15, 1942 February 4, 1943 Jerónimo Méndez Arancibia February 4, 1943 June 7, 1943 Sótero del Río Gundián June 7, 1943 February 3, 1946 Juan Garafulic Dubracic February 3, 1946 September 6, 1946 René García Valenzuela September 6, 1946 November 3, 1946 Fernando Claro Salas November 3, 1946 April 16, 1947 Gabriel González Videla Manuel Sanhueza Morales April 16, 1947 August 2, 1947 José Santos Salas Morales August 2, 1947 July 7, 1948 Guillermo Varas Contreras July 7, 1948 February 7, 1950 Manuel Aguirre Geisse February 7, 1950 February 27, 1950 Jorge Mardones Restat February 27, 1950 July 22, 1952 Sótero del Río Gundián July 22, 1952 November 3, 1952 Waldemar Coutts Billiviller November 3, 1952 April 1, 1953 Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Ministers of Public Health and Social Welfare
Picture Name Entered Office Exited Office Notes Appointed by Eugenio Suárez Orrego April 1, 1953 March 1, 1954 Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Carlos Vasallo Rojas March 1, 1954 June 5, 1954 Sergio Altamirano Pinto June 5, 1954 January 6, 1955 Jorge Aravena Carrasco January 6, 1955 May 30, 1955 Raúl Barrios Ortiz May 30, 1955 July 4, 1956 Alberto Araya Lampe July 4, 1956 August 27, 1956 Roberto Muñoz Urrutia August 27, 1956 July 18, 1957 Jorge Torreblanca Droguett July 18, 1957 November 3, 1958 Eduardo Gomién Díaz November 3, 1958 October 29, 1959 Jorge Alessandri Ministers of Public Health (Second Creation)
Picture Name Entered Office Exited Office Notes Appointed by Sótero del Río Gundián October 29, 1959 August 26, 1961 Jorge Alessandri Benjamín Cid Quiroz August 26, 1961 September 26, 1963 Francisco Rojas Villegas September 26, 1963 November 3, 1964 Ramón Valdivieso Delaunay November 3, 1964 November 3, 1970 Eduardo Frei Montalva Oscar Jiménez Pinochet November 3, 1970 August 14, 1971 Salvador Allende Juan Carlos Concha Gutiérrez August 14, 1971 November 3, 1972 Arturo Jirón Vargas November 3, 1972 August 28, 1973 Mario Lagos Hernández August 28, 1973 September 11, 1973 Additional information
See also
Sources
- República de Chile (1942). "VI. Poder Ejecutivo - Nómina de Gobernantes, Presidentes y Ministros desde la Independencia." (in Spanish). Manual del Senado. 1810-1942. Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Universitaria. http://www.memoriachilena.cl/archivos2/pdfs/MC0027508.pdf. (Spanish)
- Valencia Avaria, Luis (1986) (in Spanish). Anales de la República: textos constitucionales de Chile y registro de los ciudadanos que han integrado los poderes ejecutivo y legislativo desde 1810 (2ª edición ed.). Santiago de Chile: Editorial Andrés Bello. (Spanish)
External links
- MINSAL official website (Spanish)
- Official history
- Public Health policies and Ministers (Spanish)
- Some biographies of famous Chilean doctors (Spanish)
- Biographies of famous Chilean doctors and Freemasons (Spanish)
Categories:- Government ministries of Chile
- Health in Chile
- Health ministries
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