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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. 2008
Age groups
< 5 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60 + Total
Men 298 127 67 96 555 729 520 286 421 3,099
Amoebiasis 0 1 0 1 1 7 4 0 0 14
Brucellosis 0 0 0 0 2 3 2 0 2 9
Boutonneuse fever 5 3 0 0 0 1 5 6 6 26
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever 0 0 1 1 2 3 3 2 1 13
E coli O157:H7 gastroenteritis 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Gonorrhea 0 0 0 14 118 105 40 9 6 292
Hepatitis A 25 33 3 3 22 42 17 4 4 153
Hepatitis B 0 0 2 1 9 44 18 10 3 87
Other viral hepatitis 0 1 0 1 8 16 14 12 12 64
Echinococcosis 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 5
Legionellosis 0 0 0 0 3 15 42 79 127 266
Leishmaniasis 2 1 0 0 0 4 3 0 2 12
Leprosy 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2
Inv. dis. by H. influenzae b 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2
Meningococcal disease 48 7 1 2 8 5 7 3 3 84
Malaria 1 3 3 8 15 36 11 4 3 84
Mumps 40 36 23 7 10 10 4 4 3 137
Rubella 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 3
Congenital rubella 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Shigellosis 2 6 1 0 5 5 0 1 1 21
Aids (1) 0 0 0 0 22 61 80 22 12 197
Syphilis 0 0 0 5 73 108 57 15 15 273
Tetanus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Whooping cough 134 19 17 9 1 10 2 0 2 194
Pulmonary tuberculosis 33 12 14 36 195 195 176 102 176 939
Tuberculous meningitis 1 0 0 0 1 3 2 0 2 9
Other tuberculosis 4 3 2 8 59 54 28 12 37 207
Measles 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3
Women 263 105 62 64 297 299 173 105 229 1,597
Amoebiasis 1 2 0 1 3 4 1 0 1 13
Brucellosis 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 3 1 9
Boutonneuse fever 8 1 1 0 0 2 0 4 3 19
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 3
Gonorrhea 0 0 0 3 20 9 1 1 1 35
Hepatitis A 14 24 4 0 16 24 12 5 3 102
Hepatitis B 0 3 1 1 10 15 2 2 3 37
Other viral hepatitis 0 0 0 0 5 6 8 7 8 34
Echinococcosis 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 3
Legionellosis 0 0 0 0 1 2 12 20 55 90
Leishmaniasis 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 6
Leprosy 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Mal. inv. per H. influenzae b 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
Meningococcal disease 23 3 1 7 9 4 4 2 11 64
Malaria 6 5 1 6 10 12 3 6 3 52
Mumps 29 24 21 4 15 8 4 1 3 109
Rubella 0 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 0 6
Shigellosis 5 7 2 0 8 6 2 5 2 37
Aids (1) 0 0 0 1 9 19 22 5 3 59
Syphilis 0 0 0 1 25 16 9 3 3 57
Whooping cough 137 19 20 7 6 20 5 0 3 217
Pulmonary tuberculosis 34 15 9 23 128 116 61 32 82 500
Tuberculous meningitis 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 5
Other tuberculosis 2 1 1 9 23 29 25 6 39 135
Measles 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Total 561 232 129 160 852 1,028 693 391 650 4,696
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: October 21, 2013.

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 "..".