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... where health depends only on education The effect of education on health in the second equation is the education gradient (shortly, the gradient), i.e the total effect of education on health that results ... (18) The overall relative contribution of health behaviors (long-run mediating effect, LRME) to the education gradient adds to the contribution of health behaviors lagged once the contribution of ... denominator includes both the effect of education on health conditional on behaviors θ and the mediating effects of behaviors from lag to T This contribution differs from the contribution of health behaviors...
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... In addition, we conducted a series of one-way sensitivity analyses for the three main cost inputs to the model: thecostof a year of first-line treatment; thecostof a year of second-line treatment; ... that ofthe RM strategy if thecostof second-line therapy falls or thecostof a resistance test increases, however The ranking ofthe full RT strategy and the RM strategy is sensitive to thecost ... comments onthe manuscript The content and views expressed here are solely the responsibility ofthe authors and not necessarily represent the official views ofthe National Institute of Allergy...
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