Infektološki glasnik, Vol. 26 No. 2, 2006.
Stručni rad
Infectious diseases in Croatia in the year 2005
B. Aleraj
Sažetak
Based on data collected and analyzed by the Epidemiology Service of the Croatian National Institute of Public Health, epidemiological situation in Croatia in 2005 can be assessed as rather favorable. Such assessment is based on the following parameters and facts: diseases controlled by national mass immunization program are dramatically depressed (measles, rubella, mumps, whooping cough, tetanus) and even eliminated or eradicated (diphtheria, poliomyelitis). Diseases of poverty, low sanitation and low education (typhoid fever, shigellosis, and hepatitis A) became rare and sporadic. Classical sexually transmitted diseases (syphilis, gonorrhoea) are also rare and under control. AIDS incidence remains low and stationary. Public water supply is safe: there were no incidents in 2005 connected with public water supply. There were no outbreaks connected with industrially produced food products. This suggests that the entire national system of water and food safety works successfully and satisfactory. However, having in mind that certain potentially risk factors still exist, like insufficient local sanitation, especially regarding safe waste disposal, or still present war damages on sanitary and communal infrastructure, combined with significant war and post war migrations etc, the situation should be also assed as unstable, which asks for continuous intensive systematic work and application of a whole set of prevention and control measures. Data presented here suggest that these measures gave so far very good effects, making Croatia fully comparable to developed countries (still rather frequent tuberculosis shows also gives a good reason for even more efforts in further improvements.
Ključne riječi
Infectious diseases; surveillance; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
12697
URI
Datum izdavanja:
5.5.2006.
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