This book contains testimony on education and health issues in the Pacific Basin from a hearing conducted by a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations in January 1984. The emphasis, throughout, is on identifying social problems and finding ways the Federal government can assist in solving them. Papers included were read by members or representatives of the Hawaii State Department of Education, the University of Hawaii, the East/West Center, the Hawaii State Department of Health, the Pacific Postsecondary Education Council, the Pacific Basin Regional Educational Laboratory, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Alu Like, Inc., the Native Hawaiian Education Commission, the territory of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Kwajalein Atoll. (KH)