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Strategic Goal 1: Protect and Strengthen Equitable Access to High Quality and Affordable Healthcare








  
  
    

  
      



**Strategic Objective 1.1: Increase choice, affordability, and enrollment in high-quality healthcare coverage**

**Strategic Objective 1.2: Reduce costs, improve quality of healthcare services, and ensure access to safe medical devices and drugs**

**Strategic Objective 1.3: Expand equitable access to comprehensive, community-based, innovative, and culturally-competent healthcare services while addressing social determinants of health**

**Strategic Objective 1.4: Drive the integration of behavioral health into the healthcare system to strengthen and expand access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment and recovery services for individuals and families**

**Strategic Objective 1.5: Bolster the health workforce to ensure delivery of quality services and care**

HHS works to protect and strengthen equitable access to high quality and affordable healthcare.  Increasing choice, affordability and enrollment in high-quality healthcare coverage is a focus of the Department’s efforts in addition to reducing costs, improving quality of healthcare services, and ensuring access to safe medical devices and drugs.  HHS also works to expand equitable access to comprehensive, community-based, innovative, and culturally- and linguistically-appropriate healthcare services while addressing social determinants of health.  The Department is driving the integration of behavioral health into the healthcare system to strengthen and expand access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment and recovery services for individuals and families.  HHS also bolsters the health workforce to ensure delivery of quality services and care.

In the context of HHS, this Strategic Plan adopts the definition of *underserved communities* listed in Executive Order 13985: Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities through the Federal Government to refer to “populations sharing a particular characteristic, as well as geographic communities, who have been systematically denied a full opportunity to participate in aspects of economic, social, and civic life”; this definition includes individuals who belong to underserved communities that have been denied such treatment, such as Black, Latino, and Indigenous and Native American persons, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and other persons of color; members of religious minorities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) persons; persons with disabilities; persons who live in rural areas; and persons otherwise adversely affected by persistent poverty or inequality.  Individuals may belong to more than one underserved community and face intersecting barriers.  This definition applies to the terms *underserved communities* and *underserved populations* throughout this Strategic Plan.

*Related Executive Orders (EO) and White House Action Plans, Directives, and Memoranda:*

EO 13175: Consultation and Coordination with Indian Tribal Governments
	EO 13985: Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities through the Federal Government
	EO 13988: Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation
	EO 13994: Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future High-Consequence Public Health Threats
	EO 13995: Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery
	EO 13996: Establishing the COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board and Ensuring a Sustainable Public Health Workforce for COVID-19 and Other Biological Threats
	EO 13997: Improving and Expanding Access to Care and Treatments for COVID-19
	EO 13999: Protecting Worker Health and Safety
	EO 14001: A Sustainable Public Health Supply Chain
	EO 14008: Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad
	EO 14009: Strengthening Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act
	EO 14017: America's Supply Chains
	EO 14020: Establishment of the White House Gender Policy Council
	EO 14036: Promoting Competition in the American Economy
	EO 14070: Continuing To Strengthen Americans' Access to Affordable, Quality Health Coverage
	EO 14091: Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government
	Memorandum on Protecting Women’s Health at Home and Abroad
	Memorandum on Tribal Consultation and Strengthening Nation-to-Nation Relationships
	National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness, January 2021
	Path Out of the Pandemic: President Biden’s COVID-19 Action Plan*Related Legislation:*

21st Century Cures Act
	Breast and Cervical Cancer Mortality Prevention Act of 1990
	Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act
	Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA)
	Food and Drug Administration Act of 2007 (FDAAA)
	Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA)
	FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017 (FDARA)
	Health Information and Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009
	Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999
	Medicare Access and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP” Reauthorization Act of 2015
	Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA)
	National Research Service Awards (NRSA)
	Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010
	Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act (Patient Safety Act) of  2005
	Substance Use–Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities ActWithin HHS, the following divisions are working to achieve Strategic Goal 1: Administration for Community Living (ACL), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Indian Health Service (IHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Office of Global Affairs (OGA), Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

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