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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. 2005
Grups d'edat
< 5 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60 i més Total
Homes 170 56 54 20 172 247 243 188 219 1,369
Amebiasi 1 0 0 0 2 1 4 1 0 9
Brucel·losi 0 0 1 2 2 4 3 4 1 17
Febre botonosa 0 0 1 0 1 3 4 6 4 19
Febre tifoide i paratifoide 0 1 3 2 1 2 0 0 1 10
Gastroenteritis per E.coli O157:H7 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Hepatitis A 11 22 9 2 29 33 16 4 2 128
Hepatitis B 0 1 0 1 28 29 19 15 4 97
Altres hepatitis víriques 1 0 0 1 6 9 9 2 5 33
Hidatidosi 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 4
Legionel·losi 1 0 1 1 6 35 76 109 171 400
Leishmaniosi 3 0 0 0 5 5 2 5 0 20
Lepra 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malaltia invasiva per H. Influenzae b 0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 2 1 1 5
Malaltia meningocòccica 49 10 5 2 12 3 2 3 8 94
Paludisme 3 9 5 2 22 31 15 5 2 94
Parotiditis 17 4 14 4 18 7 3 6 1 74
Rubèola 0 0 0 1 3 2 1 0 0 7
Rubèola congènita 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Shigel·losi 3 5 8 0 13 11 6 1 0 47
Sida (1) 0 0 0 0 23 67 80 24 14 208
Síndrome hemolíticourèmica 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Tètan 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 6
Tos ferina 76 4 6 1 0 3 0 1 0 91
Xarampió 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Dones 148 50 35 15 102 115 49 52 107 673
Amebiasi 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 0 6
Brucel·losi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2
Còlera 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Febre botonosa 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 3 8
Febre tifoide i paratifoide 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 2 7
Gastroenteritis per E.coli O157:H7 -1 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 1 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 1 3
Hepatitis A 8 18 6 3 12 21 1 4 5 78
Hepatitis B 4 1 1 1 6 13 5 2 2 35
Altres hepatitis víriques 0 0 1 2 6 5 1 9 2 26
Hidatidosi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2
Legionel·losi 1 1 0 0 2 3 11 14 69 101
Leishmaniosi 4 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 10
Lepra 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Malaltia invasiva per H. Influenzae b 0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 1 3
Malaltia meningocòccica 31 8 4 0 6 3 3 2 11 68
Paludisme 7 7 3 2 14 14 5 5 5 62
Parotiditis 11 9 8 1 15 5 3 4 0 56
Rubèola 0 0 0 0 4 3 0 0 0 7
Shigel·losi 7 1 2 5 14 5 2 1 0 37
Sida (1) 0 0 0 1 13 30 14 3 3 64
Síndrome hemolíticourèmica 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Tètan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tos ferina 70 4 8 0 3 3 2 1 0 91
Xarampió 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
Total 318 106 89 35 274 362 292 240 326 2,042
Source: Departament de Salut. Direcció General de Salut Pública.
Notes:
Does not include cases missing age and/or sex.
(1) Nombre de casos declarats.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

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 "..".