Purposes

Epidemiological surveillance, detection of abnormal occurrences of diseases of compulsory notification for adopting control measures.

Institutions that intervene

MICINN, MSCO, Directorate Generals for Public Health of all of the Autonomous Communities.

General description (main variables)

Diseases, geographical location (provincial and/or municipal), date of the first symptoms, risk factors, age, sex.

Collective

Ill persons cared for by the notifying physician

Frequency of data collection

Semanal

Breakdown

Municipal o inferior

Budgetary credits necessary for its finance in the four-year period 2009-2012  (in thousands euros)

1,034.78