What are the most important infectious diseases among those ≥65 years: a comprehensive analysis on notifiable diseases, Norway, 1993-2011.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As the population ages, the burden on the healthcare system might increase and require changed public health priorities. As infections are often more severe at older age, we rank notifiable infectious diseases (ID) and describe trends of ID among the general population aged ≥65 years in Norway in order to inform public health priorities for the aging population.

Methods

We included all eligible cases of the 58 IDs notified between 1993 and 2011 (n = 223,758; 12% ≥65 years) and determined annual notification rates as the number of notified cases divided by the number of inhabitants of the corresponding year. We ranked diseases using their average annual notification rate for 2007-2011. Trends in notification rates from 1993 onwards were determined with a non-parame

SUBMITTER: Steens A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3923236 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature