Given that:

• All persons in the United States should have affordable and comprehensive quality health care throughout their life;
• Achieving the best outcomes for all is critical to quality health care;
• Long-term care should be adequately addressed;
• Mental health and physical health are both central to well-being; and,
• Health care delivery should be patient-centric.

Health care should ensure:

1. Research, policy, evidence-based medicine, and comparative effectiveness research that fosters personalized medicine; supports decision-making between a provider and patient; and, is designed, at a minimum, to report meaningful findings by race, ethnicity, gender, disability, and age
2. Recruitment, education, and placement of providers throughout the health care system that reflect the language and cultural needs of patients.
3. Consumer and provider representation as well as business and labor representation in the determination of health and mental health benefits, allocation of resources, cost containment, and quality of care standards.
4. Consumer choice and access to health care plans.
5. Expansion of consumer education and health education activities.
6. Access to quality health care for all persons and families, regardless of socioeconomic status, limited English proficiency, health status, gender, disability, or legal status; including, elimination of legal barriers to coverage for legal immigrants.
7. Improved capacity to deliver primary and preventative care at the community level, and expanded community health delivery and family services networks.

National Alliance for Hispanic Health – Board of Directors Revised August 26, 2010
Adopted: April 15, 1992. Previously revised August 27, 2009, July 3, 2007, and August 5, 2002