114- avoids defining health solely in terms of physical health and the absence of disease. This definition emphasizes the mix.of personal and governmental choices required to create and maintain a system which 1s health and not illness oriented, j.e. a system which emphasizes prevention of disease. It further serves to remind that health (or the lack of health) is a product beyond the hospital or dispensary and thereby beyond the health system currently operating in the United States (the system upon which that of the Trust Territory is modeled). Unfortunately, data by which to assess health in the comprehensive and position fashion espoused by the WHO is not currently available in the TIPI. The development of this plan must re ly upon negative indicators (i.e. rates of disease present within the population) of physicial health (i.e. physical health alone, as opposed to the more comprehensive mental and social health described above)- The only social indicators currently available ennumerate the incidence of suicide and violent crime and describe economic conditions. The only positive indicators show jmmunization levels and crude birth rates. As health planning in-the TTPI matures, 1t will expand its data base to include more com- S009131 9 AHIRPRATE AY e AOR RIEAtt ta * —_ prehensive and positive oriented data. anes