Driving Resilient Pediatric Immunization Programs Globally

Economic evaluation of pediatric influenza immunization program compared with other pediatric immunization programs: A systematic review

This study compared the economic value of pediatric immunisation programmes for influenza to those for rotavirus (RV), meningococcal disease (MD), pneumococcal disease (PD), human papillomavirus (HPV), hepatitis B (Hep B), and varicella reported in recent (2000 onwards) cost-effectiveness (CE) studies identified in a systematic review of PubMed, health technology, and vaccination databases. The...

Compositional Synthesis of Leakage Resilient Programs

A promising approach to defend against side channel attacks is to build programs that are leakage resilient, in a formal sense. One such formal notion of leakage resilience is the n-threshold-probing model proposed in the seminal work by Ishai et al. [15]. In a recent work [8], Eldib and Wang have proposed a method for automatically synthesizing programs that are leakage resilient according to ...

Rapid Emergence of Free-Riding Behavior in New Pediatric Immunization Programs

BACKGROUND Mathematical models have formalized how free-rider effects can threaten the stability of high vaccine coverage levels under established voluntary vaccination programs. However, little research has addressed the question of when free-riding begins to develop when a new vaccine is first introduced in a population. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Here, we combine a game theoretical mod...

Immunization education among family practice residency programs.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The dynamic nature of immunization schedules, shortages, and administration techniques makes keeping up to date with current national recommendations difficult and necessitates periodic evaluation of immunization teaching resources. METHODS This study surveyed family practice residency program directors in 1998 to assess their satisfaction with immunization teaching ...

A Framework for Globally Optimizing Mixed-Integer Signomial Programs