Carlos III Health Institute

The Carlos III Health Institute (Spanish: Instituto de Salud Carlos III; ISCIII) is a Spanish public health research institute,[1] legally constituted as a public research agency (organismo público de investigación), a type of quasi-autonomous entity under Spanish law. The ISCIII is integrated in the Department of Science and Innovation, although it also reports to the Department of Health in the institute's activities relating health, healthcare and its planning.[citation needed]

The institute is named after King Charles III. It was founded in 1986 to promote research in biomedicine and health sciences and to develop and provide scientific and technical guidance for the Spanish National Health System and the benefit of society in general. It has two campuses in the Community of Madrid.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Nájera Morrondo, Rafael (October 2006). "El Instituto de Salud Carlos III y la sanidad española: Origen de la medicina de laboratorio, de los institutos de salud publica y de la investigación sanitaria" [The 'Instituto de Salud Carlos III' and the public health in Spain. Origin of laboratory medicine and of the central laboratories and research in public health]. Revista Española de Salud Pública (in Spanish). 80 (5): 585–604. doi:10.1590/s1135-57272006000500013. hdl:20.500.12105/9215. ISSN 1135-5727. PMID 17193818.


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