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

Commun Dis Intell Q Rep. 2016 Mar 31;40(1):E48-145.

Abstract

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.

MeSH terms

  • 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