General presentation

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Overall objective

Main objectiveTo develop and improve preventive and health-promoting efforts and the services offered within the framework of health care and social services.

"Social security and good health"

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The Directorate for Health and Social Affairs shall

• serve as an administrative agency and competence centre, helping to implement and pursue national policy in the health and social services sector;

• provide advice to central authorities, municipalities, health enterprises, volunteer organizations and the general public;

• help facilitate the development of quality and the ranking of priorities in health and social services.

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Instruments available to the Directorate

• Regulations

• Finances

• Personnel

• Standardisation

• Ranking of priorities

• Information

• Structure

Human

Professional

Scientific

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General organization chart

Division forHealth Care and Social Services

Director GeneralBjørn Guldvog

Director GeneralBjørn-Inge Larsen

Division forPublic Health and

Social WelfareDirector General

Gunn-Elin Bjørneboe

Division for Knowledge

Management Director General

Arild Bjørndal

Division for Administrative Affairs and Organizational

Development Director General

Sigurd Røed Dahl

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Organization chart

Division for Health Care and Social Services

Director General

Division for Public Health and Social Welfare

Division for Knowledge Management

Division for Administrative Affairs and Organizational Development

Guidelines, priorities and quality

Physical activity

Knowledge Support Plans and Budget

Rare Disorders

Tobacco Control

Social Services Research Personnel

Centre for Oral Health in Rare Medical Conditions

Alcohol and Drugs

Health Services ResearchCommunication and Documentation

Municipal Health and Social Services

Specialized Health Care

Patient Ombudsmen

Emergency Medicine and Preparedness

IT Strategy and Statistics

Personnel in Health and Social Services

Resource Centre

Norwegian Registration Authority for Health Personnel

Economics

Centre for Rare Diagnoses

Poisons Information

Mental Health

Public Welfare

Voluntary Work

Preventive Health and Social Services

IT

The Archives

Nutrition

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In connection with its establishment on 1 January 2002, the Directorate received funding from:

• The Norwegian Directorate for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems

• The National Council on Tobacco and Health

• The National Council on Nutrition and Physical Activity

• The Poison Information Centre

• The Agency for Council Secretariats, etc.

• National Council of Specialist Education and Distribution of Medical Doctors

• The National Institute of Public Health - now the Norwegian Institute of Public Health

• The National Health Screening Service - now the Norwegian Institute of Public Health

• The Norwegian Board of Health

• The Ministry of Health and Social Affairs - now the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Ministry of Health

• The National Insurance Administration

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The new social services and health care administration

Social security The Ministry of Social Affairs

The National Insurance Administration

The Directorate for Health and Social Affairs

Health Enterprises

Hospitals

The Norwegian Board of Health

The Norwegian Institute of Public Health

The Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority

The Norwegian Medicines Agency

The Ministry of Health Ownership

The municipalities

The Municipal Health ServiceCare - care and rehabilitationSocial Services

County municipalities

The general public

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Social security The Ministry of Social Affairs

The National Insurance Administration

The Directorate for Health and Social Affairs

Health enterprises

Hospitals

The Ministry of Health Ownership

The municipalities

The Municipal Health ServiceCare - care and rehabilitationSocial Services

The general public

The position of the Directorate for Health and Social Affairs in the administration

The county governor

County municipalities

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Preventive and health-promoting efforts

• Help ensure that importance is attached to health care and social issues in connection with political decisions in all sectors of society;

• Help ensure that social and health issues have a strong influence on the general public's choice of lifestyle and behaviour;

• Help facilitate better living standards and participation for all by making the community available to them;

• Obtain scientific and other professional about the costs

and effects of policy instruments for preventive and health-promoting efforts;

• Develop co-ordinated, dynamic interaction with the voluntary sector;

• Determine how the use of policy instruments can reduce social inequality, and provide advice on this;

• Contribute to effective international preventive and health-promoting efforts.

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Health Care and Social Services

• Develop good quality services that are readily available to everyone.

• Develop national guidelines for the quality of services.

• Obtain scientific and other technical knowledge about the costs and effects of social and health care policy instruments.

• Help ensure that Health Care and Social Services implement targeted initiatives that address social inequalities in society-at-large

• Provide advice on health care and social services priorities based on professional assessments, socio-economic analyses, ethical considerations, etc.

• Draw up a national research programme in health care and social services.

• Intensify the State authorities' emergency preparedness efforts with a view to health care and social services.

• Contribute to effective international efforts to develop health care and social services.