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Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences

Health and Human Rights: Overview

Posted on February 9, 2016August 25, 2018 by uscglobalhealth
Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences

by Sofia Gruskin and Daniel Tarantola, edited by Michael J. Caplan (Editor-in-Chief), for Elsevier.

Posted in PublicationsTagged 2016, book chapter, Conceptual and Operational Linkages, Daniel Tarantola, GHHR, health and human rights, Health Systems and Right to Health, human rights, Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences, Sofia Gruskin

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