title: [The knowledge of the obligatory reporting of diseases among health professionals].
abstract: In order to assess what different health care workers (mainly physicians and nursing staff) know about the reporting of communicable diseases, with special emphasis on diseases that must be urgently reported, four groups were interviewed about this health information system (91 persons, who took part in different Public Health Seminars during the periods 1989-90 and 1990-91). The total mean score was 16.6 +/- 5.2, in a quantitative scale ranging from 0 to 27 points. Cholera was the communicable disease with the highest percentage of correct answers concerning the knowledge of its reporting (100% in two groups), while typhus was the disease with the lowest percentage (23%). The diversity of the results within the study groups suggests that it is necessary to insist on a continuous training on epidemiological surveillance and communicable diseases within Public Health activities in Catalonia.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Medicina Preventiva, Hospital de Bellvitge Prínceps d'Espanya, Barcelona.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Escribà Jordana
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Canela Soler
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Sala Farré
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Orcau Palau
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009726:Nurses / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010820:Physicians / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011159:Population Surveillance; D013030:Spain; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
vernacular_title: El conocimiento de la notificación de las enfermedades de declaración obligatoria en profesionales sanitarios.