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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. 2014
Age groups
< 5 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60 + Total
Men 312 195 155 68 185 334 288 228 365 2,130
Amoebiasis 4 1 3 1 3 7 6 2 3 30
Botulisme 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Brucellosis 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 1 6
Carboncle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Còlera 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Boutonneuse fever 0 2 1 0 0 5 5 6 4 23
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever 0 6 0 2 1 3 0 2 0 14
Gastroenteritis per e.coli o157:h7 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 3
Hepatitis A 13 19 10 1 9 9 6 3 4 74
Hepatitis B 0 0 0 1 7 17 10 13 12 60
Hepatitis C 0 0 0 0 5 15 18 10 3 51
Echinococcosis 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 6
Legionellosis 0 0 0 1 1 8 26 47 154 237
Leishmaniasis 1 1 1 0 1 1 4 1 3 13
Lepra 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Inv. dis. by H. influenzae b 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Meningococcal disease 16 3 0 1 4 0 4 0 2 30
Meningitis tuberculosa 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 5
Paludisme 1 4 5 6 11 40 27 14 4 112
Malaria 37 41 17 5 13 12 13 6 4 148
Mumps 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2
Rubella 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rubèola congènita 8 1 2 5 16 22 13 6 2 75
Sífilis congènita 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Síndrome hemoliticourèmica 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
Tetanus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Tètanus neonatal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Whooping cough 188 102 104 9 7 31 33 12 10 496
Triquinosi 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 3
Pulmonary tuberculosis 25 14 7 21 62 105 86 77 126 523
Other tuberculosis 2 1 3 5 26 30 23 21 27 138
Measles 13 0 2 8 15 26 7 2 0 73
Women 308 183 164 66 159 245 214 127 210 1,676
Amoebiasis 2 0 4 1 5 5 3 1 1 22
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 2 2 0 0 2 5 6 7 5 29
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever 1 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 6
Gastroenteritis per e.coli o157:h7 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 5
Hepatitis A 15 17 7 2 6 4 5 6 6 68
Hepatitis B 0 1 0 1 3 4 13 4 6 32
Hepatitis C 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 4 10
Echinococcosis 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 5
Legionellosis 0 0 0 1 2 4 6 19 61 93
Leishmaniasis 2 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 4 12
Lepra 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Inv. dis. by H. influenzae b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Meningococcal disease 5 5 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 20
Meningitis tuberculosa 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3
Paludisme 3 3 2 2 6 12 16 6 0 50
Malaria 29 31 14 6 7 8 5 6 10 116
Mumps 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Rubella 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rubèola congènita 8 10 3 1 6 9 3 2 1 43
Sífilis congènita 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Síndrome hemoliticourèmica 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
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 210 100 115 15 16 58 63 23 20 620
Triquinosi 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Pulmonary tuberculosis 19 7 7 20 62 71 50 28 60 324
Other tuberculosis 1 3 5 8 22 32 28 19 27 145
Measles 7 3 2 7 17 22 9 2 0 69
Total 620 378 319 134 344 579 502 355 575 3,806
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 "..".