- Access to high quality helth care is a basic human and civil right.
- Health care and health advocacy are everybody's business and everybody's responsibility.
- Optimal health and wellness are attainable.
- Health care providesra are responsibie for providing quality cost-effecxtive care, for being accountable and culturally sensitive, and for encouraging active participation in health care decisions.
- All individuals have the right to a high quality health care system that is accessible, affordable and culturally appropriate.
- Individuals, groups, families and communities are responsible for active participation in the process of attaining wellness and in health care decisions.
- Universal health coverage is an essential component of a quality health care system.
- All individuals have the right to equal treatment without regard of color, age, income, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, employment status, health insurance status, race or ethnicity.
- Wellness is individually defined asn includes physical, social, spiritual, psychological, economic, cultural and environmental components.
- Wellness includes health promotion, disease prevention and disease management.