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Diseases of compulsory numerical declaration. Cases. Counties and Aran, and areas

Diseases of compulsory numerical declaration. Cases. Counties 2012
Enteritis and diarrhoeas Scarlet fever Influenza Leptospirosis Chickenpox
Alt Camp 1,833 15 522 0 173
Alt Empordà 5,383 124 1,440 0 797
Alt Penedès 2,001 57 406 0 181
Alt Urgell 643 14 314 0 55
Alta Ribagorça 16 1 12 0 1
Anoia 3,856 87 903 0 611
Bages 6,790 92 2,655 1 1,907
Baix Camp 11,738 234 3,254 0 1,126
Baix Ebre 3,688 46 1,226 0 374
Baix Empordà 3,633 43 1,067 0 746
Baix Llobregat 35,442 1,273 10,093 1 7,476
Baix Penedès 4,551 1 1,280 0 155
Barcelonès 78,038 1,888 21,276 5 9,978
Berguedà 1,031 20 429 0 166
Cerdanya 1,452 0 509 0 71
Conca de Barberà 565 3 414 0 84
Garraf 8,865 200 2,365 0 1,140
Garrigues 472 9 261 0 36
Garrotxa 2,288 16 1,094 0 207
Gironès 10,044 609 3,477 1 1,116
Maresme 15,031 305 5,031 3 3,130
Montsià 3,006 30 875 0 400
Noguera 1,250 29 581 0 116
Osona 5,711 136 2,447 0 1,111
Pallars Jussà 178 26 100 0 20
Pallars Sobirà 136 43 186 0 26
Pla d'Urgell 972 35 385 0 84
Pla de l'Estany 1,025 11 413 0 100
Priorat 211 12 198 0 18
Ribera d'Ebre 1,224 25 701 0 140
Ripollès 665 11 737 0 93
Segarra 563 13 192 0 108
Segrià 10,163 248 2,697 0 933
Selva 5,281 187 1,808 0 918
Solsonès 277 34 437 0 33
Tarragonès 10,531 308 3,705 0 1,709
Terra Alta 336 1 267 0 20
Urgell 776 49 385 0 389
Val d'Aran 357 18 116 0 15
Vallès Occidental 36,972 829 9,009 2 4,936
Vallès Oriental 12,148 322 4,465 0 2,672
Catalonia 289,142 7,404 87,732 13 43,371
Source: Departament de Salut. Direcció General de Salut Pública.

Last update: October 17, 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.

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 "..".