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The COVID-19 pandemic, declared by the World Health Organization, is a public health emergency of international importance. The harms to human health caused by the SARSCoV-2 virus, and the socio-environmental and economic impacts resulting from it, demand immediate and articulated responses, involving studies from different areas of knowledge. In this perspective, this article is the result of a study under development, of an exploratory, descriptive and analytical character, which aims to map the spatio-temporal distribution of confirmed cases and deaths registered in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Likewise, it aims to identify in the urban network, the spatial association between the levels of centrality and the 280 positive cases. Considering the period between epidemiological weeks 11 and 18 of 2020, it can be said that, generally and preliminarily, contagion evolves from urban centers with higher levels of centrality to those with lower levels. On the other hand, heterarchical spatial interactions also contribute to understanding the beginning of contagion in centers with a lower hierarchical level. It is emphasized that the results can contribute to state health surveillance, offering subsidies for prioritizing places for actions, for monitoring and for studies that can identify socio-environmental risks and vulnerabilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the spatial distribution of suicide in Brazil. It was used official data and updated -- time frame from 1979 to 2011, provided by the IBGE and DATATUS. Spatial analysis and mapping from the statistical analysis of absolute and relative data allowed us to identify a pattern of spatial distribution of suicides. Initially concentrated in the South and Southeast of Brazil and in some cities in other regions. From the 1980, 1990 to 2000, the data tended to spread across all regions and to strengthen gradually where have already happened. There are some exception those with strong presence in the Amazon, the Pantanal and the coastaline belt of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]