Mission
To establish, to implement and to supervise the principal public politics in matter of integral health of the infancy, adolescence and vaccination, that favors the equity in health among all the Mexicans.

 

Vision
Being an organization of excellence, with highly level of commitment, leader to national and international level in the design, implementation and evaluation of the public politics in matter of prevention and promotion of the health of the infancy and the adolescence, including the vaccination for all the population that resides in the Mexican Republic

 

History
With date January 22, 1991, in the Official Newspaper of the Confederacy (D.O.F) Article 1º is published the presidential decree by the one that the National Counsel of Vaccination is created (CONAVA) as instance of coordination and consultation that would have like fundamental object, to promote, to support and to coordinate the actions of the institutions of health of the private, social, and public sectors, tending toward controlling and to eliminate the transmissible illnesses, to Bias of the establishment of the Program of Universal Vaccination, directed to the protection of the health of the childhood.

From 1997 the functions of responsibility of the CONAVA were expanded upon assuming those of coordination and direction of the Program of Attention to the Child Health with the components of: vaccination, acute diarrheas, acute respiratory infections and nutrition, in the group of less than five years. September 15, 2000 with the publication of the Interior Regulation of the SSA, CONAVA adopted the nature of an organ distracted expanding the universe of population of the component vaccination to all the population of the country, including besides the less than five years, to students, adolescents and adult.

July three, 2001 in the D.O.F. the reform of the CONAVA is published, adding the responsibility of the integral attention of the population adolescent and changes its denomination to National Center for the Health of the Infancy and Adolescence (CeNSIA) and the CONAVA remains assigned exclusively as collegial organ of coordination in matter of vaccination.

In the year 2002, modifications to the structure of the CeNSIA are authorized, which correspond to denomination and relocation of their components, comprising four directions of area responsible for functions in matter of vaccination, acute diarrheas, acute respiratory infections and caution of the nutrition in the less than five years, as well as the referring to the integral health of the school population, adolescent, migrant and the responsibility of the vaccination of the general population of the country. In September of 2003, they reorient the functions that the CeNSIA tapeworm to their charge, modifying their structure remaining conformed by three directions responsible for the programs of attention to the health of the: Infancy, Adolescence and the program “Go Healthy, Return Healthy”.

The Interior Regulation of the Department of Health, published January 19, 2004, establishes that the National Center for the Health of the Infancy and the Adolescence is an administrative organ distracted, with administrative, technical, and operating autonomy, responsible for establishing, to diffuse and to evaluate the national politics, strategies, features and procedures in matter of attention to the health of the infancy and the adolescence, of the vaccination for all the resident population of the country and of the Program “ Go Healthy, Return Healthy” (VSRS). In the same way, the National Program of Health 2001-2006, establishes for the CeNSIA said commitment.

From the 2005 the CeNSIA acquires new functions that arise with the creation of the National Counsel for the Prevention and the Treatment of the Cancer in the Infancy and the Adolescence, consultative organ and instance permanently of coordination and harmonization of the actions of the private, social, and public sector in matter of investigation, prevention, diagnostic and integral treatment of cancer detected in the population less than 18 years. The Counsel counts on a same, Technical Secretariat that is in charge of the CeNSIA, this new function is published in the Official Newspaper of the Confederacy (D.O.F.) January 5, 2005.

Thus same, the Undersecretary of Prevention and Promotion of the Health, for the purpose of improving the administration of the programs of action of its adhering administrative units, transfers the Program “Go Healthy, Return Healthy”, that was found in charge of the CeNSIA to the General Direction of Promotion of the Health, in this manner for the first administrative unit is done more specifies the function of attention to the health To the childhood population and adolescent, and for the second administrative unit mentioned, is reinforced with a Direction of Area, an assistant Directorship and a Department that facilitate and they support the field of action of the promotion of the health in the migrant and their families.

Based on the new functions related to the National Counsel for the Prevention and the Treatment of the Cancer in the Infancy and the Adolescence and the transfer of the Program “Go Healthy, Return Healthy”, the structure of the CeNSIA is modified being authorized for the Office of the secretary of the civil service the first one of May of 2005.

In said structure 16 movements deregulated are carried out: 7 changes of denomination, 6 changes of attachment and 3 of denomination and attachment. It is counted in the current structure with two directions of area for the administration of the programs of its responsibility of the Center: The Direction of the Program of Attention to the Health of the Infancy and the Adolescence and the Direction of Prevention and Treatment of the Cancer in the Infancy and the Adolescence. The first one besides has to its charge the component of Vaccination to all the population of the Mexican Republic. The CeNSIA counts on the Administrative Coordination to area assistant directorship level, five assistant directorship and nine departments for the achievement of its functions and objectives.

In November of 2005, this National Center, like organ distracted adhering to the Undersecretary of Prevention and Promotion of the Health, proposed the modification of its attributions for the updating of the Interior Regulation of the Secretary of Health, same that is in process of firm and publication. The new attributions of the CeNSIA are mentioned subsequently and they are considered part of the establishment of the functions of the current manual:

Functioning, by conduit of its holder as Technical Secretary of the National Counsel of Vaccination and of the National Counsel for the Prevention and the Treatment of the Cancer in the Infancy and the Adolescence, and to Propose the Undersecretary of Prevention and Promotion of the Health the politics and national strategies in matter of health of the infancy and the adolescence, including the relating to the cancer of said population groups.