Cross-Cutting Issues

• Establish an advisory body to monitor the implementation of the National Hispanic/Latino Health Initiative and to ensure accountability within all offices of DHHS.
• Ensure that all racial/ethnic minority populations be given equal access to all relevant resources of the Office of Minority Health of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health.
• Establish offices of minority health in all public health agencies, and, for those already established, provide adequate resources and staffing to ensure access to health care for all Americans.
• Develop national, uniform standards for quality of care.
• Provide appropriate resources to strengthen public health assessment, policy development, and surveillance activities pertaining to Hispanic/Latino health issues.
• Ensure that organizations serving Hispanics/Latinos are culturally competent and represent their needs.
• Increase resources to maintain adequate data on Hispanic/Latino health issues.
• Disseminate Hispanic/Latino research, data, and health information via centralized clearinghouses to researchers, health care providers, and others who require such data.
• Appoint Hispanics/Latinos to review panels, study sections, PHS advisory councils, and working groups at the Federal, State and local levels.
• Ensure that at least 50 percent of the boards of organizations serving Hispanics/Latinos are Hispanics/Latinos, with Hispanics/Latinos in key administrative and program staff positions.
• Develop regulations that require private and gateway.html institutions (including universities) that serve Hispanics/Latinos to include adequate Hispanic/Latino representation at decision-making levels.
• Secure scholarships for training Hispanic/Latino leaders in all health professions (clinical and nonclinical).
• Enforce existing Federal and State mandates to ensure opportunities for Hispanics/Latinos in higher education (faculty and boards), decision-making positions, and the workplace.
• Base health promotion and disease prevention efforts on the needs of the community being served.
• Promote the participation of health care providers and the community in health promotion and disease prevention outreach activities.
• Coordinate the administration of intervention to ensure effective and efficient management.