Non-communicable disease Non-communicable disease A non-communicable disease (NCD) is a disease that is not transmissible directly from one person to another. NCDs include Parkinson's disease, autoimmune diseases, strokes, most heart diseases, most cancers, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease, cataracts, and others. NCDs may be chronic or acute. Most are non-infectious, although there are some non-communicable infectious diseases, such as parasitic diseases in which the parasite's life cycle does not include direct host-to-host transmission. NCDs are the leading cause of death globally. In 2012, they caused 68% of all deaths (38 million) up from 60% in 2000. About half were
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases served as Professor at Lund University between 1988 and 2000. Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases The Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases is a peer-reviewed medical journal publishing original research and review articles on clinical and microbiological aspects of infectious diseases. "Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases" is published by Informa Healthcare, a trading division in Informa plc, a United Kingdom-based publisher. The current editor in chief is Ragnar Norrby. He is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Vaccine Institute and was the Director-General of the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI) until June 2009. He has also