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PILLARS
Equitable access to quality healthcare and equitable health outcomes
This pillar focuses on ensuring all individuals, particularly Black Americans, have access to affordable, high-quality health care, including primary care and clinical preventive services, mental health care, and chronic disease management.
Equitable food systems
Recognizing that "food is medicine," the NAACP emphasizes the importance of access to nutritious, affordable food through support for programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program and integration of nutrition into disease prevention and health promotion, as well as addressing food deserts in Black communities.
Inclusive healthcare system and infrastructure
This pillar advocates for a healthcare system with a diverse and culturally fluent provider workforce that can respond effectively and appropriately to the holistic needs of different communities, and where the practice of race-based medicine is eliminated.
Healthy people, healthy communities, and health in all policies
Advocating for policies that promote health across all sectors, such as expanding Medicaid, ensuring environmental justice, and utilizing data collection and analysis to inform local and state interventions and expose discriminatory practices, is essential to achieving health equity.
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