A New Causal Decomposition Paradigm towards Health Equity
面向健康公平的新因果分解框架
Causal decomposition has provided a powerful tool to analyze health disparity problems, by assessing the proportion of disparity caused by each mediator. However, most of these methods lack \emph{policy implications}, as they fail to account for all sources of disparities caused by the mediator. Besides, their estimations \emph{pre-specified} some covariates set (\emph{a.k.a}, admissible set) for the strong ignorability condition to hold, which can be problematic as some…