The General Department of Preventive Medicine is a specialized department of the Ministry of Health, which assists the Minister of Health in implementing state management functions and organizing the implementation of legal regulations in the field of preventive medicine nationwide, including: prevention and control of communicable diseases, diseases of unknown cause, social diseases; prevention and control of non-communicable diseases; school health; community nutrition; border health quarantine; primary health care and community health promotion; use of vaccines and biomedical products; preventive medicine related  tests, bio-safety in laboratory testing; state management of public services in the field of preventive medicine.