Federal Healthcare Organizations Research a federal governmental organization related to healthcare, such as FEMA, FDA, NIH, CDC, or HHS. It is important to note that some federal agencies are...

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An Analysis
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): An Introduction
Health is one of the significant factors in the success of any nations’. This is the
eason why providing high quality health care services to millions of families, children, and
seniors have taken an important role in the government’s functioning. It is also important to
provide individuals with affordable health care services, reduce the occu
ence of infectious
diseases, and others to provide Americans with healthy and successful lives. For the
purposes, there are several federal government organizations that are related to the health care
services, like FEMA, NIH, FDA, CDC, HHS and others. One such organization that is
playing key role in the health care services is HHS.
HHS is American government’s main agency for the purpose of protecting health of
the Americans as well as providing them essential human health care services, specifically for
the one who are hardly able to help themselves. HHS is the agency that represents almost
quarter of the all the federal outlays which is more than combined granted dollars for all the
other federal health agencies. HHS medical programs are the nation’s biggest health insurer
that is handling more than 1 billion of the claims per year. This agency works along with the
local and state government and many other HHS funded services fostered at local level
through state or the country agencies or through grantees from private sectors. HHS programs
are administered through 11 operating division that provides equitable treatment to the
eneficiaries across the nations. The agency is having more than 300 programs from diverse
fields, like: research, food and drug related safety, public health, health insurance, grants,
funding, and others (HHS1, 2012).
The HHS mission statement states that they are committed to enhance health and well
eing of the Americans by providing effective human and health services as well as by
fostering well-built, sustained scientific advancement in the field of medicine, social service,
and public health. The HHS mission is accomplished through several programs as well as
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initiatives that cover diversified activities which serves the U.S. nationals in every stage of
their life (HHS1, 2012).
HHS: Key responsibilities
The five basic goals of HHS are to strengthen the health care; foster advancement in
scientific knowledge as well as innovation; advancement in the health, well being, and safety
of American nationals; increasing the efficiency, accountability, and transparency of the HHS
programs; and strengthening of the Nations’ health as well as human service infrastructure as
well as workforce.
One of the major areas of critical concern for HHS is preventing infant mortality.
Maternal as well as infant health is seen as improving across America with declining rate of
the cigarette smoking by the pregnant woman’s and declining birth rates amid the teenagers
within all the ethnic groups. In spites of these reducing rates of infant mortality, U.S. is
anked at 27
th
position among the industrialized nation in an analysis of around 2000 data.
Further, there is still existence of disparity among the ethnic and racial groups in respect to
child and maternal...