Conass

Launch! New Conass application brings the main news and information from the Unified Health System (SUS) to your cell phone. Discover the main features: • Conass Digital Library; • List of state managers and contacts of the State Health Departments; • Conass Informs with the main legislation, resolutions, ordinances and SUS reports; • Conass programs, projects, statutes, strategic map and gallery of presidents; • Agenda of Conass assemblies and meetings of the Tripartite Intermanagers Commission – CIT; • News from Conass, SES and SUS partners and much more! -- The National Council of Health Secretaries, Conass, was created on February 3, 1982 as a non-profit civil association, under private law, which is guided by the principles of public law, with administrative, financial and patrimonial autonomy and emerged based on the desire of state health managers, at the time led by doctor Adib Jatene, then Secretary of State for Health of São Paulo, to comply with Alma Ata's recommendation, whose motto was “Health for all in the year 2000”. The main objectives of Conass are to strengthen state health departments and represent them politically. The Council has 13 Technical Chambers that work with the aim of strengthening the technical staff of the SES and supporting the political decisions of its members. They are: The Council has 13 Technical Chambers that work with the aim of strengthening the technical staff of the SES and supporting the political decisions of its members. They are: • Health Care • Primary Health Care • Pharmaceutical Assistance • Health Communication • Health Law • Epidemiology • Environmental Health Surveillance • Management and Financing • Occupational Health • Work and Education Management in Health • Health Information and IT; • Health Surveillance • Quality of Care and Patient Safety International Relations – Partners include: Pan American Health Organization (PAHO); University of Montreal; Quebec National School of Public Administration; Luso-Francophone Health Conference (Colufras); Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at Universidade Nova de Lisboa; University of Toronto; Latin Association for Health Systems Analysis (Alass); and Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP).