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Back pain, a communicable disease?

Author(s) -

Heiner Raspe,

Angelika Hueppe,

Hannelore Neuhauser

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dym220

Subject(s) - communicable disease , disease , non communicable disease , medicine , german , environmental health , public health , geography , pathology , archaeology

Back pain (BP) is a frequent disorder affecting currently up to 40% of adults in Western Europe. Most of it is said to be 'non-specific', i.e. lacking an obvious patho-anatomical explanation. It is seldom the consequence of a contagious disease caused by microorganisms. This does not exclude it from being communicable if 'communicable' is to refer to something being transmitted by sharing or exchanging information.

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