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Diseases of compulsory individual declaration. Cases. By sex and age groups

Diseases of compulsory individual declaration. Cases. By sex and age groups Catalonia. 2003
Grups d'edat
< 5 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60 i més Total
Homes 150 54 52 29 156 300 225 138 187 1,291
Amebiasi 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2
Brucel·losi 0 0 2 1 7 9 9 5 3 36
Còlera 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Febre botonosa 2 0 0 0 1 2 4 5 7 21
Febre tifoide i paratifoide 3 0 0 2 6 2 1 0 0 14
Gastroenteritis per E.coli O157:H7 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
Hepatitis A 21 17 7 3 40 45 12 3 0 148
Hepatitis B 0 0 2 2 21 29 24 14 6 98
Altres hepatitis víriques 0 0 0 0 6 2 1 1 5 15
Hidatidosi 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 4
Legionel·losi 1 0 0 2 7 19 44 75 126 274
Leishmaniosi 0 0 1 0 1 7 5 0 1 15
Lepra 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Malaltia invasiva per H. Influenzae b 1 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 1 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 1 5
Malaltia meningocòccica 42 6 3 9 6 3 5 3 9 86
Paludisme 6 2 6 3 16 24 16 7 1 81
Parotiditis 15 10 5 1 8 6 2 4 2 53
Rubèola 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Shigel·losi 1 3 5 3 6 12 3 0 1 34
Sida (1) 0 0 1 1 27 130 92 19 21 291
Tos ferina 52 15 18 1 2 8 4 1 1 102
Triquinosi 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Xarampió 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4
Dones 129 60 60 20 82 120 69 42 121 703
Amebiasi 0 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 7
Brucel·losi 0 0 1 1 5 3 1 2 3 16
Febre botonosa 1 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 6 13
Febre tifoide i paratifoide 0 1 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 7
Hepatitis A 14 16 7 1 14 16 4 3 2 77
Hepatitis B 0 0 0 1 7 3 2 3 9 25
Altres hepatitis víriques 1 2 1 0 2 2 1 2 5 16
Hidatidosi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Legionel·losi 0 0 1 0 2 7 10 9 55 84
Leishmaniosi 1 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 4 11
Malaltia invasiva per H. Influenzae b 0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 2 3
Malaltia meningocòccica 27 8 5 5 5 4 4 6 18 82
Paludisme 10 2 3 2 13 19 5 4 4 62
Parotiditis 3 5 7 2 4 2 4 2 3 32
Rubèola 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Shigel·losi 4 1 0 3 14 10 4 1 2 39
Sida (1) 0 0 0 0 8 31 28 3 3 73
Tètan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3
Tos ferina 63 21 32 4 6 15 1 4 2 148
Xarampió 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Total 279 114 112 49 238 420 294 180 308 1,994
Source: Departament de Salut. Direcció General de Salut Pública.
Notes:
Does not include cases missing age and/or sex.
(1) Nombre de casos declarats.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Disease of compulsory declaration (DCD)
Transmissible disease that doctors are obliged to declare due to it being of special importance to the community.
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Is a transmissible disease provoked by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It is characterised by the appearance of one or more diseases (which is why it is called a syndrome) that develop as a consequence of alterations of the immunologic system.

Methodological aspects

The Diseases of Compulsory Declaration (DCD) system manages the surveillance and control of the main transmissible diseases, some of which are subject to systematic prevention programmes, as is the case with vaccine-preventable diseases.

The Diseases of Compulsory Declaration (DCD) system is based on the declaration made by doctors when they suspect the existence of any of the diseases included in the DCD list. One of the main functions of the DCD is surveillance of the epidemiology of these diseases and outbreaks of epidemics of any aetiology that have been considered to require priority control in Catalonia.

The diseases that must be numerically declared are the following: enteritis and diarrhoeas, scarlet fever, influenza, leptospirosis, varicella, chlamydial genital infection, neonatal conjunctivitis, other sexually transmitted infections, condyloma acuminatum, genital herpes and trichomonas infection.

In 1996, to coincide with the publication of the Royal Decree to create the Network for Epidemiological Surveillance, the Working Group for Epidemiological Surveillance belonging to the National Health System's Interterritorial Council agreed to a series of case definitions of notifiable diseases to distinguish in uniform fashion between declared cases, confirmed cases and unconfirmed cases throughout the whole of Spain.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".