Setting Priorities in Behavioral Interventions: An Application to Reducing Phishing Risk

Setting Priorities in Behavioral Interventions: An Application to Reducing Phishing Risk.

Phishing risk is a growing area of concern for corporations, governments, and individuals. Given the evidence that users vary widely in their vulnerability to phishing attacks, we demonstrate an approach for assessing the benefits and costs of interventions that target the most vulnerable users. Our approach uses Monte Carlo simulation to (1) identify which users were most vulnerable, in signal...

Setting priorities for safe motherhood interventions in resource-scarce settings.

OBJECTIVE Guide policy-makers in prioritizing safe motherhood interventions. METHODS Three models (LOW, MED, HIGH) were constructed based on 34 sub-Saharan African countries to assess the relative cost-effectiveness of available safe motherhood interventions. Cost and effectiveness data were compiled and inserted into the WHO Mother Baby Package Costing Spreadsheet. For each model we assessed...

Setting priorities for development of emerging interventions against childhood diarrhoea

1 Program for Global Pediatric Research, the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada 2 Division of Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan 3 Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 4 Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA 5 Depart...

On Reducing sequences and an Application to Local Cohomology Modules

Designing choice experiments with many attributes. An application to setting priorities for orthopaedic waiting lists.

The aim of this paper is to undertake a discrete choice experiment using a 'blocked attribute' design. To date in the health economics literature, most discrete choice experiments have used only a relatively small number of attributes due to concerns about task complexity, non-compensatory decision rules, simplicity of experimental designs, and the costs of surveys. This may lead to omitted var...