as well as the Office of District Planning and the Budget office within the District Administration. in this Section. Selected Community Leaders also gave input The health planners interviewed respective Department heads to get their ideas about the existing situations in health services and also their ideas about how the system might be improved in order to improve the health status of the population of the Marshalls. 3. Community: A survey of consumer attitudes of the delivery of health care in the Marshalls was administered during the first field visit. The total number of respondents was 33. All respondents were women and had no vocational relationships with the Marshalls Department of Health Services. A questionnaire was developed by the field team and translated into the Marshallese language. The questionnaire was composed of eight questions and identification of the respondent was not required. The respondents resided in four villages on Majuro and Ebeye. The Saipan team of health planners were in the Marshalls for this data gathering phase for a total of three weeks. All of the information and data gathered during this phase were analyzed in Saipan and formed the basis of the Marshalls Health Plan which was written November, 1977. III. THE PLAN: Analysis of health information gathered in the assessment of the health system in the Marshalls District revealed the following prevalent conditions: T0091b4