title: Program optimization: a semi-quantitative approach.
abstract: The authors describe a quantitative model used to express the relative costs and benefits of alternative approaches to pulmonary prevention. This approach identifies the factors that a program director must consider in planning preventive interventions for respiratory disease of workers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Harber
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hsu
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States