Workshops and Seminars
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First. Workshop on the Evaluation of Projects through the Unified Health System (SUS)19– Held by the Environmental Health Surveillance Coordination/SVS/MS, in 2005. |
Strengthening the health sector in the environmental licensing processes of large projects in the discussion of the Health Risk Assessment resulting from Undertakings. |
First Meeting on environmental licensing of projects based on the experiences of the federal, state and municipal spheres, within Environmental Health Surveillance – Held by the Environmental Health Surveillance Coordination/SVS/ MS, in 2007. |
Strengthening the health sector in the processes of environmental licensing of large projects for the construction of guidelines for Environmental Health Surveillance. |
Seminar on Environmental Health and Worker Health and their interfaces with the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) 20 – Held by the Ministry of Health (MS) and the Brazilian Association of Collective Health (ABRASCO) - Held by the Environmental Health Surveillance Coordination/SVS/MS in 2007. |
Strengthening the health sector to address PAC works. |
Workshop on Health Impact Assessment (HIA) – Held by the Environmental Health Surveillance Coordination/SVS/MS in partnership with ABRASCO and WHO, University of Liverpool and Canada Collaborators in 2008. |
Launching bases for the operationalization of HIA in the Brazilian health sector. |
First Brazilian Seminar on Health Impact Assessment (HIA) and performance of the health sector in Environmental Licensing – Held by the Environmental Health and Worker Health Department/SVS/MS in 2013. |
Strengthening HIA in the health sector for integration in the project’s environmental licensing |
Normative instruments
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Term of Technical Cooperation between Ministries of Health and Environment – Signed in 2001.
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Strengthening and combining actions to benefit the health of the population and the integrity of the environment. |
Interministerial Ordinance Nº 822, of April 30, 2008, which establishes guidelines for cooperation between the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Environment, aiming at the integration and implementation of common actions and the consolidation of the bilateral agenda
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Strengthening cooperation actions between health and environmental sectors. |
Ordinance N° 2.241, of September 2009, which establishes the Environmental Health and Licensing Technical Group, with the purpose of structuring the participation of the health sector in the environmental licensing processes of projects
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Strengthening the health sector in the project’s environmental licensing processes |
Interministerial Ordinance Nº 419 of October 26, 2011, which regulates the performance of bodies and entities of the federal public administration involved in environmental licensing
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Establishing mechanisms to streamline bodies involved in the project’s environmental licensing processes |
Ordinance No. 1, January 2014, which establishes guidelines, procedures, flows and competence for the elaboration of the Malaria Control Plan (PACM) for the environmental licensing of projects
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Strengthening the National Malaria Control Program in the project’s environmental licensing processes |
Institutional meetings
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Participation of the Ministry of Health in the environmental licensing processes of the BR-163 Highway Cuiabá-Santarém, of the Rio de Janeiro Hydroelectric Power Plants (Santo Antônio and Jirau), HPP Belo Monte and the São Francisco Transposition Project (PISF) – 2006 to 2012.
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Strengthening the health sector in the project’s environmental licensing processes integrating governmental agendas. |
Representing the health sector in the Management Committee of the Sustainable Regional Development Plan of the Xingu (CGDEX), established by Decree Nº 7.340, of October 2, 201025– Participation in the Technical Chamber of Health, between 2010 and 2015. |
Subsidize decisions and monitor health planning actions in the Xingu Region, where the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Plant is located. |
Institutional document
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Elaboration of the document Health Impact Assessment (HIA): Methodology adapted for implementation in Brazil26– Performed by the Environmental Health and Worker Health Department/SVS/MS in 2014. |
Strengthen HIA in Brazil within the health sector. |