Poverty, lack of sanitation and violence in favelas take 6 years of life from blacks in Brazil

The IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) does not produce this type of data, but an unprecedented study by the Institute for Mobility and Social Development (IMDS) and the Center for Development and Regional Planning at UFMG used information from the Census and death records from the Ministry of Health to calculate the difference in life expectancy.
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