Health Security Service

The Health Security Service (Arvorian: Служба безопасности здоровья, SBZ) is the second arm of the healthcare system in Arvor, acting as the umbrella agency responsible for disease and epidemic prevention, medical research, biosecurity, and public health awareness. Unlike its sister agency, the State Health Service, however, the SBZ is a direct component of the Ministry of National Heath and encompasses the ministry's four primary operating agencies.

Functions

Established in 7570 RH and designed to parallel the functions of Gosmed, the SBZ "works on the back lines of healthcare while Gosmed works the front lines", quoting a line from the speech of Doctor Nikolai Konstantinovich Serebrovsky, who was the first director general of TsIZ from 7570 to 7591. Gosmed provides direct healthcare to the populace in the form of preventive, corrective, and surgical care, dental services, and optical services while the branches of the SBZ are responsible for the following activities within the national healthcare system:

• Biomedical and public health research.
• Disease study, control, and prevention.
• Quarantine authority.
• Quality regulation of medicines, medical devices, biologicals and other therapeutic goods.
• Quality regulation of foods, beverages, and other consumables.

Structure

Central Institutes for Health

The Central Institutes for Health (Центральный институт здравоохранения, TsIZ) are the largest arm of the SBZ and are responsible for biomedical and public health research. It is one of the largest such organisations in the world, with a combined roster of approximately 800 principal investigators and more than 3,000 postdoctoral associates in basic, translational, and clinical research. The Institutes are headquartered at the TsIZ campus in Provda, northwest of Cherenovsk. They work in parallel to the other national think tank, the Central Institutes for Science and Technology (TsINK). The current director general of TsIZ is Doctor Leonid Radeonovich Pavlov, the great great grandson of Doctor Andrei Ivanovich Pavlov, the preeminent surgeon and medical researcher. Leonid Radeonovich, like his famous ancestor, is a medical researcher, whose own work centres on immunology and virology. Prior to assuming his current post in 7681, he was director of the Centre for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (TsIZ-AIZ) from 7668 to 7681.

TsIZ is composed of 12 separate centers that conduct and coordinate biomedical research:

• Centre for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (TsIZ-AIZ)
  • focus - basic and applied research to better understand, treat, and prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases
• Centre for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (TsIZ-BVB)
  • focus - development and application of biomedical imaging and bioengineering technologies to study, diagnose, and treat disease
• Centre for Cancer Research (TsIZ-OI)
  • focus - conducts and supports research, training, and other activities related to the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer; the supportive care of cancer patients and their families; and cancer survivorship
• Centre for Communication Disorders (TsIZ-KR)
  • focus - conduct and support biomedical and behavioural research and research training in the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, and language
• Centre for Dental and Craniofacial Research (TsIZ-SCLI)
  • focus - research and study of oral, dental, and craniofacial health and conditions
• Centre for Dermatological and Musculoskeletal Diseases (TsIZ-DSMZ)
  • focus - conducts and supports basic research on the normal structure and function of bones, joints, muscles, and skin and all related maladies and conditions
• Centre for Diabetic, Digestive, and Endocrinological Research (TsIZ-DPEI)
  • focus - support research and training related to diabetes and other endocrine and metabolic diseases; digestive diseases, and nutritional disorders; and renal and urologic diseases
• Centre for Environmental Health Sciences (TsIZ-NGOS)
  • focus - conducts research into the effects of the environment on human disease
• Centre for General Medicine (TsIZ-OM)
  • focus - supports research to increase understanding of biological processes to promote advances in disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
• Centre for Heart, Lung, and Blood Research (TsIZ-ISLK)
  • focus - conducts research into cardiovascular, respiratory, pulmonary, and haematological functions and diseases
• Centre for Mental Health (TsIZ-PZ)
  • focus - advance understanding of mental illness through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery, and cure of related conditions
• Centre for Neurological Diseases (TsIZ-NZ)
  • focus - conducts clinical research related to diseases and disorders of the brain and nervous system
• National Library of Medicine (TsIZ-NMB)
  • focus - maintain a central depository of books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs, and images on medicine and all related sciences; it is the world's largest medical library

Centre for Disease Control

The Centre for Disease Control (Центр контроля заболеваний, TsKZ) is

...National Hygienic Laboratory (NGL)

Consumables Quality Authority

The Consumables Quality Authority (Управление качества расходных материалов, UKRM) is

Therapeutic Goods Authority

The Therapeutic Goods Authority (Управление терапевтических товаров, UTT) is