Introduction: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century the main cause of mortality in the world was infectious diseases. Scientific advances in the fight against infectious diseases led to the eradication of smallpox in 1980 and implementation of international programs for the eradication of others - measles, mumps, congenital rubella and others. These are vaccine-preventable infections (the socalled manageable infections), for which objective criteria for epidemiological surveillance have been introduced, that allow for timely adjustments in immunization programs and to influence their morbidity.
Purpose and tasks: To investigate the registered total infectious and manageable droplet morbidity in the Dobrich region for the 1995-2012 period.
Materials and Methods: Reports, analysis of RHI (Regional Health Inspectorate), MH (Ministry of Health), NCIPD (National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases), epidemiological study, epidemiological analysis, statistical methods.
Results: We observed the main indicators of epidemiological analysis, which include morbidity, mortality, lethality and incidence by age groups, for a long period (years 1995-2012), since the impact of immunotherapy in droplet infections is a slow process, related to age as well as to government immunization policies.
Conclusions: The total infectious morbidity in Dobrich for the studied 18 years period (1995- 2012) was around or below the national average with exception of a few years (1996, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004). The manageable droplet infections - measles, mumps, and rubella have low or no morbidity
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