Australia's notifiable disease status, 2014: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System

In 2014, 69 diseases and conditions were nationally notifiable in Australia. States and territories reported a total of 275,581 notifications of communicable diseases to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, an increase of 22% on the number of notifications in 2013. In 2014, the most...

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Published inCommunicable diseases intelligence Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. E48 - 145
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Australia 31.03.2016
Subjects
Age Distribution
Animals
Australia - epidemiology
Blood-Borne Pathogens
Communicable Disease Control
Communicable Diseases - epidemiology
Disease Notification - statistics & numerical data
Disease Outbreaks
Disease Vectors
Gastrointestinal Diseases - epidemiology
Humans
Public Health Surveillance
Sex Distribution
Sexually Transmitted Diseases - epidemiology
Zoonoses - epidemiology
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Summary:In 2014, 69 diseases and conditions were nationally notifiable in Australia. States and territories reported a total of 275,581 notifications of communicable diseases to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, an increase of 22% on the number of notifications in 2013. In 2014, the most frequently notified diseases were sexually transmissible infections (105,719 notifications, 38% of total notifications), vaccine preventable diseases (101,400 notifications, 37% of total notifications), and gastrointestinal diseases (40,367 notifications, 15% of total notifications). There were 17,411 notifications of bloodborne diseases; 8,125 notifications of vectorborne diseases; 1,942 notifications of other bacterial infections; 615 notifications of zoonoses and 2 notifications of quarantinable diseases.
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ISSN:1447-4514
1445-4866