Surveillance is vital to the:
- control of communicable diseases,
- identification and assessment of the relative burden of diseases,
- monitoring of trends over time, and
- meeting international reporting requirements, such as providing disease statistics to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Fifty-eight communicable diseases agreed upon nationally were reported to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
(NNDSS) in 2003.
There were 2,147 cases of notifiable diseases reported in Tasmania in 2003.
DISEASES NOTIFIED - 2003
|
 | Tasmania
|  | Australia
|
| | no. | rate(a) |  | no. | rate(a) |
|
| Campylobacterosis | 624 | 130.8 |  | 15,372 | 116.5 |
| Chlamydial | 609 | 127.6 |  | 30,161 | 151.7 |
| Hepatitis C (unspecified) | 342 | 71.7 |  | 14,169 | 71.3 |
| Salmonellosis | 151 | 31.6 |  | 7,011 | 35.3 |
| Pertussis (Whooping cough) | 132 | 27.7 |  | 5,106 | 25.7 |
| Other | 289 | 60.3 |  | 33,137 | 163.56 |
| Total | 2,147 | 449.7 |  | 104,956 | 564.06 |
(a) Per 100,000 population.
Source: National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System Annual Report 2003.
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