Alto Comissariado da Saúde

Postal Address: Avenida João Crisóstomo, 9 - 1º piso 1049-062 Lisboa

Phone number: 0035121 330 50 00

Website: http://www.acs.min-saude.pt/en/contacts/

Organisation Type: Government

Organisation summary: ACS's mission is: • Ensure technical support for policy formulation and strategic planning of health, in conjunction with the financial programming; • Ensure the development of vertical health programs; • Coordinate international relations; • Monitor and evaluate the implementation of policies, planning instruments and results, in conjunction with other departments and agencies of MS; • Ensure the preparation, monitoring and evaluation of the National Health To perform its mission, committed to the ACS the following duties: • Provide technical support for the definition and structuring of policies, priorities and objectives of MS and to promote the demand for health gains, ensuring better coordination between various departments and agencies; • Support the definition of the main options on the budget, supporting himself on the authority of the Central Administration of the Health System, I. P.; • Ensure the preparation of the National Health Plan and evaluate the results of its execution; • Monitor and evaluate the implementation of policies and programs of the Ministry as well as develop, disseminate and support the creation of tools for planning, monitoring and evaluation; • To ensure national coordination in the formulation and development of vertical health programs that are under their direct supervision; • Ensure the production of adequate information, including statistics, within the national statistical system in the areas of intervention of the Ministry; • Coordinate the activity of MS in the field of international relations and its relationship with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ensuring consistency of operational services and agencies

Funding types: Group of researchers

Agency types: Health Specific

Funding sources: Government & Research & Development Departments

Geographic area: National funding

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