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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. 2015
Age groups
< 5 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60 + Total
Men 592 488 434 90 234 417 384 253 360 3,252
Brucellosis 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2
Carboncle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Whooping cough 477 378 374 41 20 88 112 46 42 1,578
Colera 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shigelosis 5 5 0 1 22 22 21 5 7 88
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever 2 1 0 2 2 6 2 3 0 18
Leishmaniasis 2 1 0 1 1 2 5 5 7 24
Lepra 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Meningococcal disease 14 3 3 3 1 1 4 3 2 34
Paludisme 6 8 9 10 23 63 45 17 3 184
Parotiditis 47 60 32 11 58 24 11 7 5 255
Rubella 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Boutonneuse fever 3 1 0 0 1 3 3 3 3 17
Triquinosi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pulmonary tuberculosis 17 9 7 14 71 111 91 78 113 511
Other tuberculosis 2 7 1 3 17 27 23 16 31 127
Measles 3 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 7
Tetanus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hidatidosis 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 3 8
Legionellosis 0 0 0 0 5 13 24 44 124 210
Amoebiasis 5 2 3 1 4 12 8 1 4 40
Hepatitis A 5 12 4 1 3 4 5 4 2 40
Hepatitis B 1 0 0 1 3 23 23 15 5 71
Meningitis tuberculosa 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2
Rubèola congènita 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sífilis congènita 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Botulisme 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inv. dis. by H. influenzae b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Tètanus neonatal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gastroenteritis per e.coli o157:h7 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 3
Síndrome hemoliticourèmica 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Hepatitis C 0 0 0 0 1 10 6 4 6 27
Women 609 505 518 104 200 332 340 171 287 3,066
Brucellosis 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2
Carboncle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Whooping cough 531 421 463 52 57 166 216 86 107 2,099
Colera 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shigelosis 1 9 5 2 4 9 2 1 2 35
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever 4 4 3 2 1 3 1 1 0 19
Leishmaniasis 0 2 1 0 0 2 3 2 5 15
Lepra 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Meningococcal disease 15 1 1 0 1 1 1 2 8 30
Paludisme 2 3 3 6 11 7 10 5 4 51
Parotiditis 20 41 23 18 40 13 10 7 4 176
Rubella 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Boutonneuse fever 0 1 3 0 1 4 3 3 6 21
Triquinosi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pulmonary tuberculosis 14 9 9 17 47 66 51 38 44 295
Other tuberculosis 5 2 3 5 24 26 22 8 47 142
Measles 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Tetanus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hidatidosis 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 2 6
Legionellosis 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 10 46 66
Amoebiasis 3 2 0 0 6 12 3 3 2 31
Hepatitis A 8 8 3 0 3 8 2 2 1 35
Hepatitis B 0 0 0 1 2 7 6 1 3 20
Meningitis tuberculosa 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 3
Rubèola congènita 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sífilis congènita 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Botulisme 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inv. dis. by H. influenzae b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tètanus neonatal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gastroenteritis per e.coli o157:h7 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 5
Síndrome hemoliticourèmica 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Hepatitis C 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 2 4 12
Total 1,201 993 952 194 434 749 724 424 647 6,318
Source: Departament de Salut. Direcció General de Salut Pública.
Note: Does not include cases missing age and/or sex.

Last update: April 9, 2018.

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 "..".