Australia’s notifiable diseases status, 2003: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System - Abstract/authors

The Australia’s notifiable diseases status, 2003 report provides data and an analysis of communicable disease incidence in Australia during 2003. The full report is available in 20 HTML documents. This document contains the Abstact/authors. The full report is also available in PDF format from the Table of contents page.

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Megge Miller,¹ Paul Roche,¹ Keflemariam Yohannes,¹ Jenean Spencer,¹ Mark Bartlett,² Julia Brotherton,³ Jenny Hutchinson,⁴ Martyn Kirk,⁵ Ann McDonald,⁶ Claire Vadjic⁶

With contributions from:

National organisations

Communicable Diseases Network Australia and subcommittees

Australian Childhood Immunisation Register

Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme

Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme

Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network

Australian Quarantine Inspection Service

National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research

National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases

National Enteric Pathogens Surveillance Scheme

Sentinel Chicken Surveillance Programme

World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza

State and Territory health departments

Communicable Diseases Control Unit, Australian Capital Territory Department of Health and Community Care, Australian Capital Territory

Communicable Diseases Branch, New South Wales Health Department, New South Wales

Centre for Disease Control, Northern Territory Department of Health and Community Services, Northern Territory

Communicable Disease s Unit, Queensland Health, Queensland

Communicable Diseases Control Branch, South Australian Department of Human Services, South Australia

Communicable Diseases Surveillance, Department of Health and Human Services, Tasmania

Communicable Diseases Section, Department of Human Services, Victoria

Communica ble Diseases Control Branch, Health Department of Western Australia, Western Australia

Abstract

In 2003, 58 diseases and conditions were notifiable at a national level in Australia. States and territories reported a total of 104,956 cases to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System an increase of 3.2 per cent on the total number of notifications in 2002. In 2003, the most frequently notified diseases were sexually acquired infections (38,854, 37% of total notifications), gastrointestinal diseases (24,655 notifications, 24%) and bloodborne viruses (20,825 notifications, 20%). There were 11,113 notifications of vaccine preventable diseases, 6,780 notifications of vectorborne diseases, 1,826 notification of other bacterial infections and 903 notifications of zoonotic diseases. Commun Dis Intell 2005;29:1–61.

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Author affiliations

1. Surveillance Section, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

2. Manager, Surveillance, Communicable Diseases Branch, NSW Health Department, North Sydney, New South Wales

3. National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Westmead, New South Wales

4. Epidemiology and Modelling Section, Office of the Chief Veterinary Officer, Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Australian Capital Territory

5. Coordinating Epidemiologist, OzFoodNet, Australian New Zealand Food Authority and Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

6. National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales

Corresponding author: Dr Paul Roche, Surveillance Section, Department of Health and Ageing, PO Box 9848 (MDP 6), CANBERRA ACT 2601. Telephone: +61 2 6289 4415. Facsimile: +61 2 6289 7791. Email: paul.roche@health.gov.au

This article {extract} was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Vol 29 No 1 March 2005 and may be downloaded as a full version PDF from the Table of contents page.