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. 2018 Dec 27;18:178. doi: 10.1186/s12874-018-0641-4

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Depiction of relationships between contexts and mechanisms. Mechanisms may become contexts at more proximal locations along a causal chain. This figure is inherently limited by being presented as over-linear; we acknowledge that the action of mechanisms and contexts take place in less linearly defined ways