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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. 2012
Age groups
< 5 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60 + Total
Men 380 199 158 162 253 400 272 188 336 2,348
Amoebiasis 1 2 1 0 4 6 3 1 4 22
Botulisme 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Brucellosis 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 4
Carboncle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Còlera 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Boutonneuse fever 0 0 3 0 0 1 3 3 1 11
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever 1 1 1 0 1 3 0 1 0 8
Gastroenteritis per e.coli o157:h7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hepatitis A 14 23 5 1 4 8 5 2 5 67
Hepatitis B 0 0 0 1 10 26 20 11 15 83
Other viral hepatitis 2 2 0 0 3 8 2 1 0 18
Echinococcosis 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 1 2 8
Legionellosis 0 0 0 0 2 12 19 47 102 182
Leishmaniasis 2 0 0 0 1 2 2 1 3 11
Lepra 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inv. dis. by H. influenzae b 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Meningococcal disease 17 4 2 0 0 0 0 3 4 30
Meningitis tuberculosa 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 2 8
Paludisme 3 1 8 5 18 55 26 13 3 132
Malaria 54 39 43 119 59 33 12 6 5 370
Mumps 1 0 0 1 3 5 2 0 0 12
Rubella 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Rubèola congènita 1 3 1 1 4 14 7 1 3 35
Sífilis congènita 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Síndrome hemoliticourèmica 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tetanus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2
Tètanus neonatal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Whooping cough 251 113 87 14 16 40 28 15 13 577
Triquinosi 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Pulmonary tuberculosis 24 10 4 17 99 126 113 64 128 585
Other tuberculosis 2 1 2 3 24 41 23 13 45 154
Measles 3 0 0 0 4 15 2 0 0 24
Women 386 197 152 126 224 264 154 84 193 1,780
Amoebiasis 1 5 3 0 6 4 4 1 1 25
Botulisme 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Brucellosis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Carboncle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Còlera 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Boutonneuse fever 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 4 9
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever 1 0 0 0 3 2 1 1 2 10
Gastroenteritis per e.coli o157:h7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hepatitis A 18 17 3 1 4 8 5 1 3 60
Hepatitis B 0 1 0 0 4 7 7 5 0 24
Other viral hepatitis 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 1 1 12
Echinococcosis 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 4 9
Legionellosis 1 0 0 0 1 4 9 10 45 70
Leishmaniasis 4 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 10
Lepra 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Inv. dis. by H. influenzae b 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Meningococcal disease 13 1 1 3 1 0 2 2 6 29
Meningitis tuberculosa 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 4
Paludisme 3 4 1 1 9 15 5 0 4 42
Malaria 48 31 14 79 60 23 10 8 7 280
Mumps 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 3
Rubella 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rubèola congènita 2 1 1 0 7 11 2 0 0 24
Sífilis congènita 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Síndrome hemoliticourèmica 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 3
Tetanus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Tètanus neonatal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Whooping cough 265 119 112 15 26 57 39 17 22 672
Triquinosi 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Pulmonary tuberculosis 22 9 11 21 69 75 43 23 60 333
Other tuberculosis 2 5 2 5 22 43 23 11 26 139
Measles 3 1 0 1 6 5 1 0 0 17
Total 766 396 310 288 477 664 426 272 529 4,128
Source: Departament de Salut. Direcció General de Salut Pública.
Note: Does not include cases missing age and/or sex.

Last update: March 3, 2016.

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 "..".