Ministry of Health (Denmark)
{{Short description|Government ministry of Denmark}}
{{Infobox government agency
| name = Ministry of Health
| native_name = Sundheds- og Ældreministeriet
| image = Sundhedsministeriet 2018.jpg
| image_caption = Headquarters of the Danish Ministry of Health at Holbergsgade 6 in Copenhagen
| jurisdiction = {{flag|Denmark}}
| minister1_name = Sophie Løhde
| website = http://sum.dk
}}
The Danish Ministry of Health ({{Langx|da|Sundhedsministeriet}}){{cite web|url=https://sum.dk/english|title=The Danish Ministry of Health|language=en|access-date=16 January 2021}} is a Danish governmental ministry responsible for healthcare policy in Denmark. First created as an independent ministry in 1926, it has at various times been combined with the Ministry of the Interior as the Ministry of Interior and Health, most recently in 2022-, and has had various names. The current Minister for Health is Sophie Løhde, and the Permanent Secretary since 11 January 2021 is Svend Særkjær.{{cite web|url=https://sum.dk/ministeriet/ministeriets-historie|title=Ministeriets historie|publisher=Sundheds- og Ældreministeriet}}
Responsibilities
The ministry oversees all aspects of healthcare in Denmark, including hospitals, medical treatments, dispensaries, patient rights, healthcare data collection and medical and research ethics.{{cn|date=April 2023}}
History
The ministry was first created in 1926, and since then has several times been merged with the Ministry of the Interior and re-established under various official names. In modern times it was first re-established in September 1987,{{cite web|url=http://www.sum.dk/Om-ministeriet/Ministeriets-historie.aspx|title=Ministeriets historie|publisher=Sundheds- og Ældreministeriet|language=da|access-date=15 October 2016 }} with responsibilities drawn in part from other ministries, including oversight over foodstuffs, anti-narcotics and anti-alcohol efforts, education of medical personnel, and health care in Greenland—some of these were later reassigned—and was recombined with the Ministry of the Interior in November 2001. In November 2007 it again became an independent ministry under the name Ministerium for Sundhed og Forebyggelse (English: Ministry for Health and Prevention), taking on some responsibilities from the Family Ministry, which was dissolved; the Ministry of the Interior, in turn, was merged into a new Ministry of Welfare (Velfærdsministerium). In 2010 the combined Ministry of Interior and Health was again reconstituted, but the following year the Ministry of the Interior was included in a new {{Interlanguage link multi|Ministry of the Economy and the Interior|da|3=Økonomi- og Indenrigsministeriet}} while the Ministry of Health once more became the Ministry for Health and Prevention. In June 2015 it was renamed the Ministry of Health and the Aged, and acquired some responsibilities from the Social- og Indenrigsministeriet (Ministry of Social affairs and the Interior), the combination of the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Ministry of the Interior which was created at the same time.{{Cite news|title=Kongelig resolution af 28. juni 2015|publisher=Statsministeriet|date=28 June 2015|url = http://stm.dk/multimedia/Kgl._resolution_af_28._juni_2015.pdf|language=da }} In November 2016, under Lars Løkke Rasmussen's third government, it became a separate ministry once more.{{cite news|url=http://www.thelocal.dk/20161128/here-is-denmarks-new-coalition-government|title=Here is Denmark's new coalition government|newspaper=The Local|location=Denmark|date=28 November 2016 }}
=List of ministers=
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! colspan=9| Minister of Health Services {{Officeholder table | order2 = 1 | image = Victor Rubow.jpg | officeholder = {{ill|Viktor Rubow|da}} | born_year = 1871 | died_year = 1929 | term_start = 14 December 1926 | term_end = 30 April 1929 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|1926|12|14|1929|04|30}} | alt_party = Venstre (Denmark) | cabinet = {{Officeholder table cabinet | cabinet = Madsen-Mygdal }} | ref = {{cite encyclopedia|url=http://denstoredanske.dk/Dansk_Biografisk_Leksikon/Sundhed/L%C3%A6ge/V._Rubow|title=V. Rubow|encyclopedia=Dansk Biografisk Leksikon|publisher=Den Store Danske|author=Axel Borgbjærg|edition=2nd|orig-year=1933–1944|date=18 July 2011|language=da}} }} |
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! colspan=9| Minister of Development and Health Affairs {{Officeholder table | order2 = 2 | image = blank.png | officeholder = Johannes Kjærbøl | born_year = 1885 | died_year = 1973 | term_start = 13 November 1947 | term_end = 23 November 1947 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|1947|11|13|1947|11|23}} | alt_party = Social Democrats (Denmark) | cabinet = {{Officeholder table cabinet | cabinet = Hedtoft I }} | ref = From 13 to 23 November 1947, the Ministerium for Byggeri- og Boligvæsen (Ministry of Development and Housing) included health and was called the Ministerium for Byggeri og Sundhedsvæsen: {{cite web|url=https://www.sa.dk/daisy/ng?id=272793|title= Arkivskaber: By- og Boligministeriet|publisher=Danish National Archives|language=da|access-date=16 October 2016 }} }} |
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! colspan=9| Minister of Health {{Officeholder table | order2 = 3 | image = blank.png | officeholder = Agnete Laustsen | born_year = 1935 | died_year = 2018 | term_start = 10 September 1987 | term_end = 3 June 1988 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|1987|09|10|1988|06|03}} | alt_party = Conservative People's Party (Denmark) | cabinet = {{Officeholder table cabinet | cabinet = Schlüter II }} | ref = – }} {{Officeholder table | order2 = 4 | image = blank.png | officeholder = Elsebeth Kock-Petersen | born_year = 1949 | died_year = | term_start = 3 June 1988 | term_end = 7 December 1989 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|1988|06|03|1989|12|07}} | alt_party = Venstre (Denmark) | cabinet = {{Officeholder table cabinet | cabinet = Schlüter III }} | ref = – }} {{Officeholder table | order2 = 5 | image = blank.png | officeholder = Ester Larsen | born_year = 1936 | died_year = 2025 | term_start = 7 December 1989 | term_end = 25 January 1993 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|1989|12|07|1993|01|25}} | alt_party = Venstre (Denmark) | cabinet = {{Officeholder table cabinet | cabinet = Schlüter III | cabinet4 = Schlüter IV }} | ref = – }} {{Officeholder table | order2 = 6 | image = blank.png | officeholder = Torben Lund | born_year = 1950 | died_year = | term_start = 25 January 1993 | term_end = 27 September 1994 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|1993|01|25|1994|09|27}} | alt_party = Social Democrats (Denmark) | cabinet = {{Officeholder table cabinet | cabinet = Poul Nyrup Rasmussen I }} | ref = – }} {{Officeholder table | order2 = 7 | image = blank.png | officeholder = Yvonne Herløv Andersen | born_year = 1942 | died_year = | term_start = 27 September 1994 | term_end = 30 December 1996 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|1994|09|27|1996|12|30}} | alt_party = Centre Democrats (Denmark) | cabinet = {{Officeholder table cabinet | cabinet = Poul Nyrup Rasmussen II }} | ref = – }} {{Officeholder table | order2 = 8 | image = blank.png | officeholder = Birte Weiss | officeholder_note = {{small|(Also served as Minister of the Interior)}} | born_year = 1941 | died_year = | term_start = 30 December 1996 | term_end = 23 March 1998 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|1996|12|30|1998|03|23}} | alt_party = Social Democrats (Denmark) | cabinet = {{Officeholder table cabinet | cabinet = Poul Nyrup Rasmussen III }} | ref = – }} {{Officeholder table | order2 = 9 | image = blank.png | officeholder = Carsten Koch | born_year = 1945 | died_year = | term_start = 23 March 1998 | term_end = 23 February 2000 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|1998|03|23|2000|02|23}} | alt_party = Social Democrats (Denmark) | cabinet = {{Officeholder table cabinet | cabinet = Poul Nyrup Rasmussen IV }} | ref = – }} {{Officeholder table | order2 = 10 | image = blank.png | officeholder = Sonja Mikkelsen | born_year = 1955 | died_year = | term_start = 23 February 2000 | term_end = 21 December 2000 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|2000|02|23|2000|12|21}} | alt_party = Social Democrats (Denmark) | cabinet = {{Officeholder table cabinet | cabinet = Poul Nyrup Rasmussen IV }} | ref = – }} {{Officeholder table | order2 = 11 | image = blank.png | officeholder = Arne Rolighed | born_year = 1947 | died_year = | term_start = 21 December 2000 | term_end = 27 November 2001 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|2000|12|21|2001|11|27}} | alt_party = Social Democrats (Denmark) | cabinet = {{Officeholder table cabinet | cabinet = Poul Nyrup Rasmussen IV }} | ref = – }} |
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! colspan=9| Minister of the Interior and Health {{Officeholder table | order2 = 12 | image = Ekstraordinaert moede om alkoholpolitik 18. oktober.jpg | officeholder = Lars Løkke Rasmussen | born_year = 1964 | died_year = | term_start = 27 November 2001 | term_end = 23 November 2007 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|2001|11|27|2007|11|23}} | alt_party = Venstre (Denmark) | cabinet = {{Officeholder table cabinet | cabinet = Anders Fogh Rasmussen I | cabinet2 = Anders Fogh Rasmussen II }} | ref = – }} |
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! colspan=9| Minister of Health and Prevention {{Officeholder table | order2 = 13 | image = blank.png | officeholder = Jakob Axel Nielsen | born_year = 1967 | died_year = | term_start = 23 November 2007 | term_end = 23 February 2010 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|2007|11|23|2010|02|23}} | alt_party = Conservative People's Party (Denmark) | cabinet = {{Officeholder table cabinet | cabinet = Anders Fogh Rasmussen III }} | cabinet2 = {{Officeholder table cabinet | cabinet = Lars Løkke Rasmussen I }} | ref = – }} |
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! colspan=9| Minister of the Interior and Health {{Officeholder table | order2 = 14 | image = Integrationsminister Bertel Haarder under utfragning vid Nordiska radets mote i Kopenhamn.jpg | officeholder = Bertel Haarder | born_year = 1944 | died_year = | term_start = 23 February 2010 | term_end = 3 October 2011 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|2010|02|23|2011|10|03}} | alt_party = Venstre (Denmark) | cabinet = {{Officeholder table cabinet | cabinet = Lars Løkke Rasmussen I }} | ref = – }} |
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! colspan=9| Minister of Health and Prevention {{Officeholder table | order2 = 15 | image = Astrid Krag.jpg | officeholder = Astrid Krag | born_year = 1982 | died_year = | term_start = 3 October 2011 | term_end = 30 January 2014 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|2011|10|03|2014|01|30}} | alt_party = Socialist People's Party (Denmark) | cabinet = {{Officeholder table cabinet | cabinet = Thorning-Schmidt I }} | ref = – }} {{Officeholder table | order2 = 16 | image = Nick Hækkerup.jpg | officeholder = Nick Hækkerup | born_year = 1968 | died_year = | term_start = 3 February 2014 | term_end = 28 June 2015 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|2014|02|03|2015|06|28}} | alt_party = Social Democrats (Denmark) | cabinet = {{Officeholder table cabinet | cabinet = Thorning-Schmidt II }} | ref = – }} |
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! colspan=9| Minister of Health and Elderly Affairs {{Officeholder table | order2 = 17 | image = Sophie Løhde.jpg | officeholder = Sophie Løhde | born_year = 1983 | died_year = | term_start = 28 June 2015 | term_end = 28 November 2016 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|2015|06|28|2016|11|28}} | alt_party = Venstre (Denmark) | cabinet = {{Officeholder table cabinet | cabinet = Lars Løkke Rasmussen II }} | ref = {{cite news|url=https://www.thelocal.dk/20150628/here-is-denmarks-new-government|title=Here is Denmark's new government|newspaper=The Local|location=Denmark|date=28 June 2015 }} }} |
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! colspan=9| Minister of Health {{Officeholder table | order2 = 18 | image = Informal meeting of health ministers (iEPSCO). Arrivals Ellen Trane Noerby (35909039651) cropped.jpg | officeholder = Ellen Trane Nørby | born_year = 1980 | died_year = | term_start = 28 November 2016 | term_end = 27 June 2019 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|2016|11|28|2019|06|27}} | alt_party = Venstre (Denmark) | cabinet = {{Officeholder table cabinet | cabinet = Lars Løkke Rasmussen III }} }} |
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! colspan=9| Minister of Health and Elderly Affairs {{Officeholder table | order2 = 19 | image = Opening of Plusway - Magnus Heunicke 01 (cropped).JPG | officeholder = Magnus Heunicke | born_year = 1975 | died_year = | term_start = 27 June 2019 | term_end = 15 December 2022 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|2019|06|27|2022|12|15}} | alt_party = Social Democrats (Denmark) | cabinet = {{Officeholder table cabinet | cabinet = Frederiksen I }} }} |
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! colspan=9| Minister of the Interior and Health {{Officeholder table | order2 = (17) | image = | officeholder = Sophie Løhde | born_year = 1983 | died_year = | term_start = 15 December 2022 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|2022|12|15}} | alt_party = Venstre (Denmark) | cabinet = {{Officeholder table cabinet | cabinet = Frederiksen II }} | ref = }} |
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [http://www.sum.dk/ Official website] {{in lang|da}}
- [http://www.sum.dk/English.aspx English website]
{{Danish ministerial posts}}
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