Results: A total of 1885 were included in the study after exclusion (775 males and 1110 females). The case rate was highest for 1845yrs age group. Among communicable diseases Upper respiratory tract infections (URTI) (67.06%) and acute gastroenteritis (12.55%) had maximum burden. Musculoskeletal pains (26.55%) and hypertension (15.53%) were the most reported diseases among non-communicable dise...

The relationship between natural disasters and communicable diseases is frequently misconstrued. The risk for outbreaks is often presumed to be very high in the chaos that follows natural disasters, a fear likely derived from a perceived association between dead bodies and epidemics. However, the risk factors for outbreaks after disasters are associated primarily with population displacement. T...

Huge increases in funding for international health over the past two decades have led to a proliferation of donors, partnerships, and health organisations. Over the same period, the global burden of non-communicable diseases has increased absolutely and relative to communicable diseases. In this changing landscape, national programmes for the control of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and negl...

BACKGROUND Sub-national analyses of causes of death and time-trends help to define public health policy priorities. They are particularly important in countries undergoing epidemiological transition like Peru. There are no studies exploring Peruvian national and regional characteristics of such epidemiological transition. We aimed to describe Peru's national and regional mortality profiles betw...

Communicable Disease Surveillance Highlights report on data from various sources, including the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) and several disease specific surveillance systems that provide regular reports to Communicable Diseases Intelligence. These national data collections are complemented by intelligence provided by State and Territory communicable disease epidemio...

15 years after its fi rst democratic election, South Africa is in the midst of a profound health transition that is characterised by a quadruple burden of communicable, non-communicable, perinatal and maternal, and injury-related disorders. Non-communicable diseases are emerging in both rural and urban areas, most prominently in poor people living in urban settings, and are resulting in increas...

Reporting of communicable diseases to local health departments by health-care providers and laboratories is fundamental to the prevention, control, and monitoring of diseases in the community. It is common knowledge among public health officials that communicable diseases are underreported by physicians; yet the extent to which this occurs is unknown. This study was implemented to determine com...

1 Centre for Enteric Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa 2 Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 3 Division of Public Health Surveillance and Response, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa 4 L...