The epidemiology of notifiable diseases in Australia and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2012-2022.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Infectious disease surveillance tracks disease epidemiology and informs prevention and control. Public health measures implemented in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020 to 2022) affected infectious disease epidemiology. We examined notifiable disease epidemiology in Australia from 2012 to 2022, evaluating disease trends and pandemic impacts.

Methods

We analysed case notifications supplied to the Australian National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (NNDSS) from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2022. The annual incidence and notification incidence trends were calculated and the average changes in annual incidence were investigated by Poisson regression.

Results

Over the study period, there were 14,087,045 notifications of 68 diseases. Respiratory

SUBMITTER: Sohail A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11622879 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature