Disparities in surgical care for children across Brazil: Use of geospatial analysis

• João R. N. Vissoci,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America, Division of Emergency Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America, Division of Global Neurosurgery and Neurology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America, Graduate program in Health Sciences, State University of Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil

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• Cecilia T. Ong,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America, Division of Pediatric Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-6427

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• Luciano de Andrade,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Graduate program in Health Sciences, State University of Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil

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• Thiago Augusto Hernandes Rocha,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Federal University of Minas Gerais, School of Economics, Center of Post-Graduate and Research in Administration, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Nubia Cristina da Silva,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Federal University of Minas Gerais, Faculty of Economics, Observatory of Human Resources in Health, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Dan Poenaru,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery, The Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada

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• Emily R. Smith,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America, Robbins College of Health and Human Services, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States of America

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• Henry E. Rice ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rice0017@mc.duke.edu

  Affiliations Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America, Division of Pediatric Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8033-6687

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• on behalf of the Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery

  ¶The complete author list for the Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery can be found in the acknowledgments.

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