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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. 2011
Age groups
< 5 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60 + Total
Men 509 249 142 125 741 1,035 634 310 388 4,133
Amoebiasis 2 0 1 1 3 6 5 2 0 20
Brucellosis 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 3
Boutonneuse fever 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 3 11
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever 1 2 1 0 7 3 2 0 0 16
Gonorrhea 0 0 0 19 152 144 69 20 5 409
Hepatitis A 11 17 3 2 12 20 8 1 2 76
Hepatitis B 1 0 1 1 12 25 18 8 7 73
Other viral hepatitis 1 1 1 0 2 2 2 0 1 10
Echinococcosis 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 2 8
Legionellosis 0 0 0 0 4 18 20 35 119 196
Leishmaniasis 2 0 0 0 3 3 3 1 0 12
Lymphogranuloma venereum 0 0 0 0 24 40 21 3 0 88
Inv. dis. by H. influenzae b 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Meningococcal disease 27 10 0 2 4 2 2 0 3 50
Malaria 7 6 3 5 21 52 29 13 3 139
Mumps 42 38 42 15 21 7 1 2 3 171
Rubella 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2
Shigellosis 3 1 3 1 4 6 7 3 2 30
Aids (1) 0 0 0 0 10 36 40 21 2 109
Syphilis 0 0 0 10 113 169 103 30 22 447
Tetanus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2
Whooping cough 340 158 65 17 15 47 30 10 13 695
Pulmonary tuberculosis 31 10 14 19 99 152 98 93 142 658
Tuberculous meningitis 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 3 11
Other tuberculosis 3 3 2 9 39 46 25 14 35 176
VIH 0 0 0 11 165 211 138 46 19 590
Measles 34 2 6 13 23 44 7 0 0 129
Women 495 282 126 78 325 388 230 126 221 2,271
Amoebiasis 3 2 0 1 4 5 3 0 1 19
Brucellosis 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2
Boutonneuse fever 0 1 0 1 1 1 3 3 4 14
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever 1 1 0 0 3 2 0 3 0 10
Gastroenteritis por E. coli O157:H7 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3
Gonorrhea 0 0 1 6 40 21 14 6 1 89
Hepatitis A 8 9 3 2 7 11 7 0 3 50
Hepatitis B 0 0 0 0 3 4 7 2 5 21
Other viral hepatitis 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 5
Echinococcosis 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 8
Legionellosis 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 11 55 73
Leishmaniasis 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 8
Lepra 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Meningococcal disease 18 12 2 0 1 3 0 2 6 44
Malaria 3 1 3 3 9 8 14 4 0 45
Mumps 26 29 20 11 14 5 5 4 2 116
Rubella 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Shigellosis 4 3 0 0 6 3 0 3 0 19
Aids (1) 0 0 0 0 5 9 12 3 1 30
Syphilis 0 0 0 2 24 23 7 5 4 65
Síndrome hemoliticourèmica 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Tetanus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Whooping cough 364 203 87 10 30 72 57 23 29 875
Pulmonary tuberculosis 18 7 6 24 90 87 51 26 62 371
Tuberculous meningitis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Other tuberculosis 2 4 2 4 21 36 22 13 37 141
VIH 0 0 0 3 38 44 16 14 4 119
Measles 42 7 1 10 26 48 5 1 0 140
Total 1,004 531 268 203 1,066 1,423 864 436 609 6,404
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 "..".