Deployment cost–benefit selection in physiology

Okay kiddo, so you know how sometimes doctors or scientists want to test a new medicine or treatment to see if it will help people who are sick or have a disease? Well, before they can give it to lots of people, they have to do something called a deployment cost-benefit selection.

It's like when you want to buy a toy at the store. You have to think about how much money you have (the cost) and if the toy is worth buying (the benefit). With deployment cost-benefit selection, the scientists have to think about how much it will cost to test the medicine or treatment (the cost) and decide if it will actually help lots of people (the benefit).

In physiology, which is the study of how our bodies work, researchers have to think about things like how many people have the disease they want to treat, how bad it is, and how much money it will cost to test the medicine or treatment. Then they have to decide if it's worth spending the money to test it and if it will actually work on a lot of people.

This is really important because sometimes, even if a medicine or treatment works really well on a few people, it might not work on a lot of people, or it might cost too much money to test. So, the scientists have to be really careful when they decide which medicines or treatments to test and make sure they will actually help a lot of people and not waste money.

Does that make sense, kiddo?