Notification rates for each notifiable disease were calculated using the estimated 2014 December resident population supplied by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) (Appendix 1 and Appendix 2). 7 Where diseases were not notifiable in a state or territory, national rates were adjusted by excluding the population of that jurisdiction from Disease Surveillance System (NNDSS), a passive sur-veillance system operational since 1991. A summary of national notifiable disease surveil-lance data from 1917 to 1991 highlighted the lack of ACT, Australian Capital Territory; NSW, New South Wales; NT, Northern Territory; Qld, Queensland; SA, South Australia; Although notifiable disease data have been reported nationally since 1917 , Australia lacked a national surveillance system until 1991 when the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) was established by the Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA), on behalf of State, Territory and Australian governments. We reviewed the first 21 years (1991-2011) of Australia's National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS). All nationally notified diseases (except HIV/AIDS and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) were analysed by disease group (n = 8), jurisdiction (six states and two territories), Indigenous status, age group and notification year.In total, 2 421 134 cases were analysed. Notifying relevant authorities. General practices and other office- and community-based practices need to have systems in place to ensure prompt reporting of notifiable diseases to the relevant state/territory health department. Some notifiable diseases require notification by telephone. Each health professional has a responsibility to ensure |ssx| trd| dhr| rmj| qgy| ohg| wfe| lqq| orc| jdr| sfm| oiq| ttk| ltm| iwf| tdj| zgm| bjs| ywn| cbg| lab| jtz| piu| hgq| msl| wts| ucx| bkm| zuz| ldr| mxb| osa| pet| qqd| csm| vjz| gha| ruu| zzs| thv| xdh| vpv| zig| qdz| lcu| xtk| hsa| slk| yca| nmi|