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Department of Health & Human Services
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Read the key documents that describe what this agency wants to achieve, its performance to date, and what it plans to learn through research and evaluation
Strategic plan Performance plan & report Learning agendaMission
Enhance the health and well-being of all Americans, by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services.
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Where is this agency headed?
Strategic goals are updated every four years and represent the broad outcomes and impacts an agency aspires to achieve over the course of an Administration's term. To advance those goals, agencies define more specific, targeted Objectives to complete.
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4YR Goal
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Protect and Strengthen Equitable Access to High Quality and Affordable Healthcare
- Increase choice, affordability, and enrollment in high-quality healthcare coverage
- Reduce costs, improve quality of healthcare services, and ensure access to safe medical devices and drugs
- Expand equitable access to comprehensive, community-based, innovative, and culturally-competent healthcare services while addressing social determinants of health
- 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
- Bolster the health workforce to ensure delivery of quality services and care
4YR Goal
2
Safeguard and Improve National and Global Health Conditions and Outcomes
- Improve capabilities to predict, prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters, public health and medical emergencies, and threats across the nation and globe
- Protect individuals, families, and communities from infectious disease and non-communicable disease through equitable access to effective, innovative, readily available diagnostics, treatments, therapeutics, medical devices, and vaccines
- Enhance promotion of healthy behaviors to reduce occurrence of and disparities in preventable injury, illness, and death
- Mitigate the impacts of environmental factors, including climate change, on health outcomes
4YR Goal
3
Strengthen Social Well-Being, Equity, and Economic Resilience
- Provide effective and innovative pathways leading to equitable economic success for all individuals and families
- Strengthen early childhood development and expand opportunities to help children and youth thrive equitably within their families and communities
- Expand access to high-quality services and resources for older adults and people with disabilities, and their caregivers to support increased independence and quality of life
- Increase safeguards to empower families and communities to prevent and respond to neglect, abuse, and violence, while supporting those who have experienced trauma or violence
4YR Goal
4
Restore Trust and Accelerate Advancements in Science and Research for All
- Improve the design, delivery, and outcomes of HHS programs by prioritizing science, evidence, and inclusion
- Invest in the research enterprise and the scientific workforce to maintain leadership in the development of innovations that broaden our understanding of disease, healthcare, public health, and human services resulting in more effective interventions, treatments, and programs
- Strengthen surveillance, epidemiology, and laboratory capacity to understand and equitably address diseases and conditions
- Improve data collection, use, and evaluation, to increase evidence-based knowledge that leads to better health outcomes, reduced health disparities, and improved social well-being, equity, and economic resilience
4YR Goal
5
Advance Strategic Management to Build Trust, Transparency, and Accountability
- Promote effective enterprise governance to ensure programmatic goals are met equitably and transparently across all management practices
- Sustain strong financial stewardship of HHS resources to foster prudent use of resources, accountability, and public trust
- Uphold effective and innovative human capital resource management resulting in an engaged, diverse workforce with the skills and competencies to accomplish the HHS mission
- Ensure the security and climate resiliency of HHS facilities, technology, data, and information, while advancing environment-friendly practices
