Plenary session papers from a workshop focusing on how the health professions might provide better care for victims of violence and prevent violence itself comprise this document. Papers include: (1) "Welcome and 'Charge' to the Participants" (C. Everett Koop); (2) "Interpersonal Violence and Public Health Care: New Directions, New Challenges" (Marvin E. Wolfgang); (3) "Violence and Public Health" (William H. Foege); (4) "Interpersonal Violence: A Comprehensive Model in a Hospital Setting--from Policy to Program" (Karil S. Klingbeil); (5) "Interdisciplinary Interventions Applicable to Prevention of Interpersonal Violence and Homicide in Black Youth" (Deborah Prothrow-Stith); and (6) "This Epidemic of Family Violence" (Anthony V. Bouza). Recommendations from the workshop's work groups on the topics of assault and homicide, child abuse, child sexual abuse, elder abuse, rape and sexual assault, and spouse abuse are included. Results of a Delphi survey on the roles of education and research in violence and medical, health, and social services delivery are presented. (ABL)