Gesundheitsexperten ordnen Krankheiten traditionell zwei Kategorien zu: ansteckende Krankheiten, die in erster Linie durch Infektion verursacht werden, und nicht ansteckende Krankheiten – also alle anderen.
Health experts have traditionally lumped diseases into two categories: communicable diseases, which are caused predominantly by infection, and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – that is, everything else.