IACS (Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud / Aragon Health Sciences Institute) is a public institution dependent on the Government of Aragon devoted to Health Sciences development.
IACS (Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud / Aragon Health Sciences Institute) is a public institution dependent on the Government of Aragon devoted to Health Sciences development. It was created by the Regional Health Law (6/2002) and its objective is to generate knowledge in order to fulfil the main needs in health, producing scientific results capable of raising resources and promoting research amongst the public hospitals and health services in the Region of Aragon. In order to fulfil its aims, and according to the framework agreement signed between the Regional Health System of Aragon (owner of the hospitals) and the IACS, all the research groups and infrastructures from public hospitals and health centres are managed by IACS, besides their structural dependence.
Aragon is a Spanish Autonomous Community in the northeast of the country, with close to 50,000 Km2 and 1,700,000 population. The capital is Zaragoza (around 750,000 pop.). The public care system is provided in Aragon by the Regional Authority (DGA) through the SALUD. It is organized in 8 Sanitary Sectors, each one including PRIMARY CARE centres, SPECIALIZED CARE centres, SOCIO-SANITARY HELP centres, and MENTAL HEALTHCARE centres.
