The Health Minister of Denmark was a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 ministerial

Minister (government)

A minister is a politician who holds significant public office in a national or regional government. Senior ministers are members of the cabinet....

 post in the Danish cabinet, for the leader of the Ministry of Health. The post and the ministry was created in 1987, and merged into the Ministry of the Interior in 2001, which was then renamed the Ministry of the Interior and Health

Ministry of the Interior and Health (Denmark)

The Ministry of the Interior and Health is a Danish ministry created on 24 November 1848, after Denmark became a constitutional monarchy. For most of its existence it was known as the Ministry of the Interior...

. In 2007, the ministry again became an individual ministry, this time called Ministry of Health and Prevention.

List of Health Ministers

• Agnete Laustsen (K), 10 September 1987 - 3 June 1988
• Elsebeth Kock-Petersen (V), 3 June 1988 - 7 December 1989
• Ester Larsen (V), 7 December 1989 - 25 January 1993
• Torben Lund (S), 25 January 1993 - 27 September 1994
• Yvonne Herløv Andersen (CD), 27 September 1994 - 30 December 1996
• Birte Weiss (S), 30 December 1996 - 23 March 1998
• Carsten Koch (S), 23 March 1998 - 23 February 2000
• Sonja Mikkelsen (S), 23 February 2000 - 20 December 2000
• Arne Rolighed
  Arne Rolighed
  Arne Rolighed is a Danish former politician and the current president of the Danish Cancer Society until July 2010. Although he was never a member of the Danish parliament, Prime minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen appointed him as Health Minister in December 2000, a position he held until the Social...
  
  (S), 21 December 2000 - 26 November 2001