Common disease
As common diseases nichtepidemische diseases, due to their distribution and their economic impact (costs of treatment are entitled to wage compensation for disability, early retirement) are valued fall socially significant. Typical diseases of civilization in industrialized nations are cardiovascular and kidney diseases (the consequences of high blood pressure ), osteoarthritis and type 2 diabetes mellitus (the result of overeating). Another important widespread disease is cancer .
The term widespread disease was introduced in 1832 by the medical historian Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker for the psychological epidemics of the Middle Ages such as dance rage . In 1923, the medical historian Georg Sticker from Würzburg translated Hippocrates' description of epidemics ("έπιδημι „ν") with "common diseases".
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Hippocrates: The common diseases first and third book (around the year 434-430 BC). Translated from the Greek, introduced and explained by Georg Sticker. Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1923 (= Classics of Medicine. Volume 29); Unchanged reprint: Central antiquariat of the German Democratic Republic, Leipzig 1968.