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Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 1R8, Canada; Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Social Science, National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (ENSP/FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: monica.malta@camh.ca.
² Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
³ Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

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Monica Malta et al. Lancet Public Health. 2020 Apr.

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. 2020 Apr;5(4):e178-e179.

doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30054-2. Epub 2020 Mar 17.

¹ Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 1R8, Canada; Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Social Science, National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (ENSP/FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: monica.malta@camh.ca.
² Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
³ Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

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Transgender health, identity, and dignity.
The Lancet Public Health. The Lancet Public Health. Lancet Public Health. 2020 Apr;5(4):e177. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30059-1. Lancet Public Health. 2020. PMID: 32243848 No abstract available.