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  1. Pediatrics Department, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, 175 Cambridge St., 5th Floor, Boston, MA, 02114, USA

    Ashkon Shaahinfar M.D., M.P.H.

  2. Department of Global Health and Population, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

    Theresa S. Betancourt Sc.D., M.A.

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  1. MassGeneral Hospital for Children Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Nupur Gupta

  2. MassGeneral Hospital for Children Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Brett D. Nelson

  3. Pediatrics, MassGeneral Hospital for Children Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

    Jennifer Kasper

  4. Global Health Pediatrics, MassGeneral Hospital for Children Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Patricia L. Hibberd

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Shaahinfar, A., Betancourt, T.S. (2014). Child and Adolescent Health and Human Rights. In: Gupta, N., Nelson, B., Kasper, J., Hibberd, P. (eds) The MassGeneral Hospital for Children Handbook of Pediatric Global Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7918-5_26

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