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

Diseases of compulsory numerical declaration. Cases. Counties 2013
Enteritis and diarrhoeas Scarlet fever Influenza Leptospirosis Chickenpox
Alt Camp 1,744 32 561 0 506
Alt Empordà 5,096 213 2,219 0 913
Alt Penedès 1,374 47 746 0 247
Alt Urgell 663 22 197 0 70
Alta Ribagorça 59 0 23 0 3
Anoia 4,260 98 1,399 0 699
Bages 6,663 131 3,185 0 1,201
Baix Camp 9,355 152 3,526 0 1,237
Baix Ebre 3,850 65 823 0 257
Baix Empordà 3,363 57 1,567 0 746
Baix Llobregat 34,223 1,397 12,418 0 5,419
Baix Penedès 3,147 0 1,296 0 333
Barcelonès 75,758 1,890 29,976 3 12,146
Berguedà 1,035 33 359 0 160
Cerdanya 1,467 9 555 0 37
Conca de Barberà 602 5 436 0 96
Garraf 8,026 238 2,752 0 1,619
Garrigues 582 6 242 0 125
Garrotxa 1,669 28 1,260 0 89
Gironès 8,034 496 3,975 0 1,525
Maresme 12,908 244 6,902 0 1,905
Montsià 3,152 23 1,113 0 729
Noguera 1,511 45 882 0 298
Osona 5,732 121 3,444 0 1,668
Pallars Jussà 229 28 86 0 43
Pallars Sobirà 135 10 113 0 67
Pla d'Urgell 1,218 23 648 0 94
Pla de l'Estany 855 109 407 0 292
Priorat 246 1 230 0 53
Ribera d'Ebre 835 15 611 0 61
Ripollès 603 20 1,090 0 339
Segarra 753 19 227 0 35
Segrià 10,879 270 3,736 0 1,145
Selva 5,016 195 2,752 1 1,016
Solsonès 177 0 173 0 12
Tarragonès 7,956 355 4,775 1 1,463
Terra Alta 297 0 150 0 25
Urgell 1,327 63 677 0 171
Val d'Aran 324 22 132 0 66
Vallès Occidental 35,349 1,022 14,311 0 5,986
Vallès Oriental 12,937 356 7,003 0 3,263
Catalonia 273,409 7,860 116,977 5 46,159
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 "..".