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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. 2013
Age groups
< 5 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60 + Total
Men 312 188 146 113 256 372 280 165 318 2,150
Amoebiasis 0 2 2 0 2 2 4 0 2 14
Botulisme 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Brucellosis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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 3 2 3 1 2 2 3 5 21
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever 1 2 0 1 3 1 5 1 0 14
Gastroenteritis per e.coli o157:h7 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Hepatitis A 12 16 4 0 5 10 6 3 2 58
Hepatitis B 1 0 0 0 5 27 14 11 12 70
Hepatitis C 0 0 0 0 4 18 10 2 4 38
Echinococcosis 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 2 4 9
Legionellosis 0 0 0 0 2 8 25 33 108 176
Leishmaniasis 3 1 0 0 0 2 2 2 7 17
Lepra 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inv. dis. by H. influenzae b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
Meningococcal disease 5 2 0 2 2 2 2 1 3 19
Meningitis tuberculosa 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 4
Paludisme 3 8 11 8 22 39 39 9 1 140
Malaria 55 45 41 72 75 39 18 7 3 355
Mumps 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rubella 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rubèola congènita 3 4 0 1 9 10 6 2 1 36
Sífilis congènita 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Síndrome hemoliticourèmica 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
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 195 87 78 9 7 38 26 13 10 463
Triquinosi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pulmonary tuberculosis 22 14 8 14 89 120 92 65 115 539
Other tuberculosis 1 2 0 3 22 41 26 10 37 142
Measles 9 1 0 0 6 10 3 0 0 29
Women 316 153 151 79 197 264 175 94 210 1,639
Amoebiasis 2 1 1 1 2 5 0 1 0 13
Botulisme 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Brucellosis 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Carboncle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Còlera 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Boutonneuse fever 1 3 1 1 1 1 6 3 3 20
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever 2 2 2 0 2 3 0 1 0 12
Gastroenteritis per e.coli o157:h7 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 4
Hepatitis A 5 15 2 2 1 10 4 2 2 43
Hepatitis B 0 0 0 2 4 6 5 6 6 29
Hepatitis C 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 2 2 8
Echinococcosis 0 1 0 0 1 4 1 1 2 10
Legionellosis 1 0 0 0 0 2 8 11 47 69
Leishmaniasis 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 6
Lepra 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Inv. dis. by H. influenzae b 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
Meningococcal disease 12 2 1 0 1 1 3 1 6 27
Meningitis tuberculosa 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 4
Paludisme 7 1 5 0 14 17 17 2 5 68
Malaria 35 32 36 49 54 18 13 4 3 244
Mumps 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rubella 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rubèola congènita 5 1 3 1 2 13 3 2 3 33
Sífilis congènita 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Síndrome hemoliticourèmica 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2
Tetanus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tètanus neonatal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Whooping cough 209 83 87 9 14 61 29 24 24 540
Triquinosi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pulmonary tuberculosis 22 8 9 9 83 81 56 23 65 356
Other tuberculosis 5 2 3 3 13 31 17 10 35 119
Measles 10 0 0 1 5 8 3 0 0 27
Total 628 341 297 192 453 636 455 259 528 3,789
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 "..".