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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. 2006
Age groups
< 5 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60 and over Total
Men 233 131 96 35 148 256 223 131 205 1,458
Amoebiasis 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 2 1 6
Brucellosis 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 1 1 9
Boutonneuse fever 1 2 1 0 1 2 4 0 1 12
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever 2 0 2 1 0 3 1 0 1 10
E coli O157:H7 gastroenteritis 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
Hepatitis A 26 28 13 3 30 30 19 3 4 156
Hepatitis B 2 2 1 4 28 39 30 14 8 128
Other viral hepatitis 2 0 0 1 11 18 14 7 8 61
Echinococcosis 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Legionellosis 0 0 0 0 3 18 58 68 142 289
Leishmaniasis 5 1 0 0 1 4 2 3 2 18
Leprosy 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2
Inv. dis. by H. influenzae b 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 6
Meningococcal disease 37 4 2 6 5 5 1 3 8 71
Malaria 4 6 0 3 19 23 14 1 1 71
Mumps 9 18 7 6 26 11 2 0 3 82
Shigellosis 26 57 58 10 6 8 7 2 5 179
Sida (1) 1 0 0 0 13 84 66 26 12 202
Congenital syphilis 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Haemolytic ureic syndrome 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Whooping cough 56 7 6 0 0 2 2 1 0 74
Trichinosis 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
Measles 57 3 6 0 4 2 0 0 0 72
Women 198 107 81 28 96 116 71 53 112 862
Amoebiasis 1 0 2 1 3 4 1 0 0 12
Brucellosis 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 4
Boutonneuse fever 1 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 4 12
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever 4 0 0 0 5 2 2 1 1 15
E coli O157:H7 gastroenteritis 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4
Hepatitis A 14 34 10 3 23 25 9 3 5 126
Hepatitis B 0 0 0 1 10 11 6 3 4 35
Other viral hepatitis 0 0 1 1 7 6 10 5 6 36
Echinococcosis 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Legionellosis 0 0 0 1 1 7 10 18 71 108
Leishmaniasis 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 5
Mal. inv. per H. influenzae b 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Meningococcal disease 24 6 0 3 7 1 4 4 3 52
Malaria 3 1 3 5 8 11 5 8 4 48
Mumps 6 11 3 2 6 6 1 3 4 42
Rubella 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Shigellosis 17 41 46 10 6 12 3 1 4 140
Sida (1) 0 0 0 0 9 19 15 4 2 49
Haemolytic uremic syndrome 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Tetanus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Whooping cough 69 12 12 0 3 3 0 0 0 99
Trichinosis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Measles 54 2 3 0 5 4 0 0 0 68
Total 431 238 177 63 244 372 294 184 317 2,320
Source: Departament de Salut. Direcció General de Salut Pública.
Notes:
Does not include cases missing age and/or sex.
(1) Nombre de casos declarats.

Last update: August 3, 2010.

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 "..".