STRATEGIC PLAN - ASPE - U.S. Department of Health and Human ...

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEWMissionThe HHS mission is to enhance the health and wellbeingof Americans by providing for effective healthand human services and by fostering sound, sustainedadvances in the sciences underlying medicine, publichealth, and social services.Core Principles iThe Secretary has developed core public policyprinciples, which serve as the basis for the Department’sefforts toward achieving its mission. These principlesof governance form the philosophical backbone forhow HHS approaches and solves problems. The nineprinciples, listed to the right, are not all inclusive, butthey do provide the philosophical underpinnings for thisStrategic Plan, and they will be incorporated into otherplanning documents used by HHS.CORE PRINCIPLES• National standards, neighborhood solutions.• Collaboration, not polarization.• Solutions transcend political boundaries.• Markets before mandates.• Protect privacy.• Science for facts, process for priorities.• Reward results, not programs.• Change a heart, change a nation.• Value life.HHS Strategic Plan FY 2007-201213