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, 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 November 2016, under
Lars Løkke Rasmussen's third government, it became a separate ministry once more.
List of ministers ==See also==