DeCS

Descriptor English:

Noncommunicable Diseases

Descriptor Spanish:

Enfermedades no Transmisibles

Spanish from Spain

Descriptor	enfermedades no transmisibles
Entry term(s)	enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles enfermedades no infecciosas
Scope note:	Enfermedades que son característicamente de origen no infeccioso y que no se transmiten de una persona afectada a otras. Los cuatro grupos principales de enfermedades no transmisibles son las ENFERMEDADES CARDIOVASCULARES (p. ej., el infarto de miocardio y los accidentes cerebrovasculares), el CÁNCER, las enfermedades respiratorias crónicas (p. ej., la ENFERMEDAD PULMONAR OBSTRUCTIVA CRÓNICA y el ASMA) y la DIABETES MELLITUS.

Descriptor Portuguese:

Doenças não Transmissíveis

Descriptor French:

Maladies non transmissibles

Entry term(s):

MCNT
MNT (Maladie Non Transmissible)
Maladie chronique non transmissible
Maladie non transmissible
Maladies chroniques non transmissibles

Tree number(s):

C23.550.291.898

RDF Unique Identifier:

https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000073296

Scope note:

Diseases which are typically non-infectious in origin and do not transmit from an affected individual to others. The four main types of noncommunicable diseases are CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES (e.g., heart attacks and stroke), CANCER, chronic respiratory diseases (e.g., CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE and ASTHMA) and DIABETES MELLITUS.

Allowable Qualifiers:

CL classification
DT traitement médicamenteux
EC économie
EH ethnologie
EP épidémiologie
MO mortalité
NU soins infirmiers
PC prévention et contrôle
PX psychologie
RH rééducation et réadaptation
TH thérapie

DeCS ID:

56960

Unique ID:

D000073296

Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL):

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Date Established:

2018/01/01

Date of Entry:

2017/07/11

Revision Date:

2019/05/06