This volume is the product of "a workshop to discuss the changing demographic and epidemiologic profiles of developing countries and responses from the health sector to these changes. The Workshop...was held November 20-22 1991 at the National Academy of Sciences Georgetown facility in Washington D.C. This report includes ten of the papers presented during the workshop....First participants considered the issue of projecting realistic scenarios of the populations and cause-of-death structures of developing countries as well as discussed health over the life course. Second the workshop turned to the mechanisms used to establish priorities in the allocation of health resources in response to the changing demographic and epidemiologic profiles. Particular attention was given to the appropriate use of data in establishing priorities. The third topic was the role of government private medicine and families in providing health services." (EXCERPT)