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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. 2010
Age groups
< 5 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60 + Total
Men 231 87 66 76 620 802 547 282 397 3,108
Amoebiasis 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 1 6
Brucellosis 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 6
Boutonneuse fever 0 0 0 0 3 2 2 2 5 14
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever 4 3 1 1 3 1 1 1 0 15
E coli O157:H7 gastroenteritis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Gonorrhea 0 0 0 14 224 157 63 11 1 470
Hepatitis A 10 13 7 0 25 35 12 7 1 110
Hepatitis B 1 0 1 2 10 27 14 6 7 68
Other viral hepatitis 0 0 0 2 2 3 4 2 4 17
Echinococcosis 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 3
Legionellosis 0 1 0 0 8 25 41 75 126 276
Leishmaniasis 2 0 1 0 0 1 6 2 0 12
Leprosy 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 3
Lymphogranuloma venereum 0 0 0 0 2 16 7 1 0 26
Inv. dis. by H. influenzae b 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Meningococcal disease 34 6 2 2 3 3 3 0 3 56
Malaria 7 8 1 9 16 29 28 6 1 105
Mumps 33 24 12 8 5 7 3 0 1 93
Shigellosis 5 5 1 1 9 11 10 3 3 48
Aids (1) 0 0 1 0 15 51 64 22 13 166
Syphilis 0 0 1 5 100 168 93 22 16 405
Síndrome hemoliticourèmica 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Tetanus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Whooping cough 97 12 17 3 3 7 6 2 1 148
Pulmonary tuberculosis 25 11 15 24 136 200 132 101 172 816
Tuberculous meningitis 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 0 4 9
Other tuberculosis 4 1 3 4 51 48 50 18 34 213
Measles 8 2 3 1 2 2 1 0 0 19
Women 194 75 58 68 221 478 156 111 285 1,646
Amoebiasis 0 1 0 1 4 4 0 0 1 11
Brucellosis 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2
Boutonneuse fever 2 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 7
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever 1 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 8
Gastroenteritis por E. coli O157:H7 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 3
Gonorrhea 0 0 0 6 26 19 8 6 2 67
Hepatitis A 7 7 4 0 8 6 5 4 5 46
Hepatitis B 0 0 1 1 4 8 5 1 2 22
Other viral hepatitis 0 1 0 0 0 3 6 1 7 18
Echinococcosis 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 4
Legionellosis 0 0 0 0 4 4 15 26 54 103
Leishmaniasis 3 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 12
Mal. inv. per H. influenzae b 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3
Meningococcal disease 22 11 2 3 3 0 1 1 5 48
Malaria 1 3 3 15 13 9 5 2 51 102
Mumps 23 17 18 9 3 8 1 3 1 83
Congenital rubella 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Shigellosis 5 2 0 0 6 8 2 2 2 27
Aids (1) 0 0 0 0 7 10 17 5 2 41
Syphilis 0 0 0 0 13 260 9 7 1 290
Whooping cough 96 16 17 4 7 15 10 2 6 173
Pulmonary tuberculosis 17 9 8 20 95 87 48 34 97 415
Tuberculous meningitis 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 5
Other tuberculosis 7 0 1 5 20 27 17 15 41 133
Measles 7 3 0 1 4 4 3 0 0 22
Total 425 162 124 144 841 1,280 703 393 682 4,754
Source: Departament de Salut. Direcció General de Salut Pública.
Notes:
Does not include cases missing age and/or sex.
(1) Nombre de casos declarats.

Last update: October 21, 2013.

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 "..".