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  • Number of new tetanus cases Number of new tetanus cases (Line chart)
  • Number of new tetanus cases Number of new tetanus cases (Bar chart)
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 tetanus cases
Indicator code: E050104.T

Self-explanatory. ICD-9: 037; ICD-10: A35. Data are available from the CD unit at WHO/EURO.

Country/Area notes
Albania
Institute of Public Health.
Belgium
Data sources: Sanitary 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.
Estonia
Health care, social insurance, social care 1994. Statistical Office of Estonia.
Finland
Source: Hospital Discharge Register, Stakes 1987 and subsequent years. Before that, the National Public Health Institute. From 1998, Stakes Care Register.
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
Source: ISTAT.
January 2000: Source: Ministry of Health
Lithuania
National Public Health Centre.
Netherlands
Chief Medical Officer of Public Health.
Slovenia
Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana 1996 (Epidemiologic monitoring of communicable diseases in Slovenia).
Spain
Tetanus (ICD- 9 code 037, 771.3). Data come from the Epidemiological Surveillance System of Obligatory Declaration Disease (ODD).
Source: Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo. Centro Nacional de Epidemiología
Sweden
Source: Swedish Institutes for Infectious Disease Control.