Effect of Health Literacy on Antiviral Treatment of Hepatitis B: Instrumental Variable Analysis

Hanchao Cheng   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Shiyang Liu   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Zhitao Wang   ¹ , MSc ;   Qiyou Wu   ¹ , MSc ;   Xin Wang   ³ , MPH ;   Polin Chan   ⁴ , MD ;   Zhongdan Chen   ⁵ , PhD ;   Simon Luo   ⁶ , PhD ;   Yinghua Li   ⁷ , PhD ;   Jing Sun   ¹ , PhD

¹ School of Health Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

² Medical School of Chinese People's Liberation Army, The Fifth Medical Center of People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, China

³ Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China

⁴ Hepatitis/Tuberculosis/HIV/STI, World Health Organization Regional Office for the South East Asia, Dehli, India

⁵ Hepatitis/TB/HVI/STI, World Health Organization Representative Office in China, Beijing, China

⁶ IQVIA, China, Beijing, China

⁷ China Health Education Center, Beijing, China

*these authors contributed equally