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

Diseases of compulsory numerical declaration. Cases. Counties 2014
Enteritis and diarrhoeas Scarlet fever Influenza Leptospirosis Chickenpox
Alt Camp 1,903 43 519 0 79
Alt Empordà 5,339 195 1,767 0 1,496
Alt Penedès 1,421 60 510 0 188
Alt Urgell 814 22 253 0 86
Alta Ribagorça 125 3 39 0 2
Anoia 4,631 157 1,493 0 1,177
Bages 7,268 233 3,094 0 1,685
Baix Camp 9,511 167 3,376 0 842
Baix Ebre 3,428 98 1,290 0 904
Baix Empordà 3,247 99 1,151 0 717
Baix Llobregat 39,233 1,353 11,223 0 5,624
Baix Penedès 1,726 25 346 0 195
Barcelonès 80,642 2,377 24,642 2 10,371
Berguedà 1,149 10 314 0 155
Cerdanya 1,043 0 343 0 7
Conca de Barberà 682 12 390 0 86
Garraf 8,328 335 2,506 0 981
Garrigues 664 14 300 0 37
Garrotxa 1,699 97 616 0 328
Gironès 7,376 442 2,593 0 1,742
Maresme 15,765 400 4,404 0 2,760
Montsià 3,475 41 1,287 0 731
Noguera 1,729 65 702 0 294
Osona 6,151 194 2,870 0 974
Pallars Jussà 325 7 110 0 161
Pallars Sobirà 150 10 143 0 19
Pla d'Urgell 945 46 425 0 302
Pla de l'Estany 1,534 53 567 0 280
Priorat 250 13 184 0 21
Ribera d'Ebre 995 45 616 0 65
Ripollès 778 12 1,103 0 88
Segarra 822 19 318 0 33
Segrià 11,554 506 3,985 0 1,247
Selva 5,152 266 2,472 0 1,072
Solsonès 110 0 75 0 40
Tarragonès 7,842 373 3,443 0 1,170
Terra Alta 435 6 151 0 13
Urgell 1,631 89 662 0 225
Val d'Aran 448 62 84 0 62
Vallès Occidental 37,405 1,283 12,867 0 6,071
Vallès Oriental 14,206 524 5,474 1 2,323
Catalonia 291,931 9,756 98,707 3 44,653
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 "..".