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Portugal’s National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change includes comprehensive measures to reduce the impacts of climate change. [6] [18] The initiatives defined for public health are: Development of public health alert systems to warn citizens about upcoming heatwaves; Surveillance of vector-borne disease. Air quality monitoring
Healthcare in Portugal is provided through three coexisting systems: the National Health Service (Portuguese: Serviço Nacional de Saúde, SNS), special social health insurance schemes for certain professions (health subsystems) and voluntary private health insurance.
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The Ministry of Health (Portuguese: Ministério da Saúde) is a Portuguese government ministry. The minister is Ana Paula Martins , she is a pharmacist and a politician. Her deputies are Cristina Vaz Tomé and Ana Povo.
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The Directorate-General of Health is governed by a Director-General who is, as part of their functions, the country's Chief Medical Officer (Portuguese: Autoridade de Saúde Nacional, literally the "National Health Authority"). The current Director-General of Health is Graça Freitas, having taken office on 1 January 2018. [3]
A list of countries by health insurance coverage. The table lists the percentage of the total population covered by total public and primary private health insurance, by government/social health insurance, and by primary private health insurance, including 34 members of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal was a part of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).On 2 March 2020, the virus was confirmed to have reached the country when it was reported that two men, a 60-year-old doctor who travelled to the north of Italy on vacation and a 33-year-old man working in Spain, tested positive for ...