title: Demographic differences in notifiable infectious disease morbidity--United States, 1992-1994.
abstract: Before the 1990s, National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) data consisted primarily of summary records that lacked demographic information for persons with reported diseases. By 1990, all 50 states were using CDC's National Electronic Telecommunications System for Surveillance (NETSS) to report individual case data that included demographic information (without personal identifiers) about most nationally notifiable diseases. These data are important for evaluating sex- specific differences in the occurrence of infectious diseases; monitoring infectious disease morbidity trends; determining the relative disease burdens among demographically diverse subpopulations in the United States; targeting prevention; and identifying priorities for research and control. This report describes and compares the numbers and rates of cases for the most frequently reported nationally notifiable infectious diseases, by sex and age of persons with reported illness, reported to CDC during 1992-1994. The findings indicate that for seven of the 10 most commonly reported notifiable diseases, the reported incidence is lower among women.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009017:Morbidity; D011159:Population Surveillance; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology