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Data set notes
European Health for All database

Indicators: 565
Updated: 18 October 2024

The following abbreviations are used in the indicator titles:
•    SDR: age-standardized death rates (see HFA-DB user manual/Technical notes, page 13, for details)
•    FTE: full-time equivalent
•    PP: physical persons
•    PPP$: purchasing power parities expressed in US $, an internationally comparable scale reflecting the relative domestic purchasing powers of currencies.

Indicator notes
Number of new pertussis cases
Indicator code: E045331.T

Self-explanatory. ICD-9: 033; ICD-10: A37. Data are available from the CD Unit at WHO/EURO.

Country/Area notes
Albania
Institute of Public Health.
Belgium
Data sources: Sanittary Inspection of the Ministry of the Flemish Community Government, Sanitary Inspection of the Ministry of the French Community Government. Remark: These data only refer to cases that occurred in the Flemish and Walloon Region. Data of the Brussels Capital Region are not available. (The Brussels Capital Region has approximately 950 000 inhabitants, which is about 10% of the Belgian population). Because of a serious underreporting, this number is an underestimation.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Public Health Institute BIH - Department of Epidemiology.
Czechia
ICD-10 only dg. A37.0 + A37.1.
Estonia
Some Facts about Health Care of Estonia 1990-1995. Estonian Medical Statistical Bureau. January 2001: For 1997-1998 only ICD-10: A37.0 was included. Source: Health Protection Inspection. Data from annual reporting system
Finland
Source: National Public Health Institute.
Iceland
Source: Directorate of Health, Section for Infectious Disease Control.
Ireland
Source: Central Statistics Office for 1980-1984. Department of Health for subsequent years.
Israel
Department of Epidemiology, Ministry of Health.
Italy
January 2000: Source: Ministry of Health.
Lithuania
National Public Health Centre.
Netherlands
Chief Medical Officer of Public Health.
Slovakia
Source: Institute of Public Health, Banska Bystrica
Slovenia
Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana 1996 (Epidemiologic monitoring of communicable diseases in Slovenia).
Spain
Pertussis (ICD-9 code 033). Data come from the Epidemiological Surveillance System of Obligatory Declaration Disease (ODD).
Source: Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo. Centro Nacional de Epìdemiología
Sweden
From 1996 = clinically reported cases (before 1996 laboratory reports)
Source: Swedish Institutes for Infectious Disease Control.