Health, lifestyle, health care use and supply, causes of death; from 1900
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This table presents a wide variety of historical data in the field of health, lifestyle and health care. Figures on births and mortality, causes of death and the occurrence of certain infectious diseases are available from 1900, other series from later dates.
In addition to self-perceived health, the table contains figures on infectious diseases, hospitalisations per diagnosis, life expectancy, lifestyle factors such as smoking, alcohol consumption and obesity, and causes of death. The table also gives information on several aspects of health care, such as the number of practising professionals, the number of available hospital beds, nursing day averages and the expenditures on care.
Many subjects are also covered in more detail by data in other tables, although sometimes with a shorter history. Data on notifiable infectious diseases and HIV/AIDS are not included in other tables.
Data available from: 1900
Status of the figures:
2023:
The available figures are definite.
2022:
Most available figures are definite.
Figures are provisional for:
- notifiable infectious diseases, HIV, AIDS;
- expenditure on care.
2021:
Most available figures are definite.
Figures are provisional for:
- notifiable infectious diseases, HIV, AIDS;
- hospital admissions according to diagnosis;
- quantitative hospital data;
- health professions.
Figures are revised provisional for:
- expenditure on healthcare.
2020:
Most available figures are definite.
Figures are provisional for:
- notifiable infectious diseases, HIV, AIDS.
Figures are revised provisional for:
- expenditure on healthcare.
2019 and earlier:
Most available figures are definite.
Due to 'dynamic' registrations, figures for notifiable infectious diseases, HIV, AIDS remain provisional.
Changes as of 22 December 2023:
- For each series the most recent available figures have been added.
When will new figures be published?
December 2024.
Description topics
- Health status
- Health as perceived by the person him/herself as well as health as
assessed by medical professionals; the latter in terms of occurrence of
notifiable infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, use of medication, and private
sector sickness absence.- Persons in (very) good health
- People answering 'good' or 'very good' to the question 'Generally
speaking, how is your health?'. Other possible answers are 'moderate',
'bad' and 'very bad'.
- Persons with complete dentures
- The percentage of persons in the population aged 16 years or older with
upper and lower dentures. From 2010 these figures are no longer available.
- Use of medication/food supplements
- The use of medication and food supplements such as vitamins, minerals and herbal preparations in the fortnight preceding the interview.
Due to changes in methodology and questionnaire, data before and after 2010 cannot fully be compared.- % prescribed
- Use of medicines or food supplements prescribed by a physician. Birth
control pills and medicines prescribed during hospital admissions are not
included.
Until 2010, this concerns only the use of medicines.
- % non-prescribed
- Use of non-prescribed medication or food supplements. Until 2010, this
concerns only the use of medicines.
- Sickness absence
- The number of days employees are absent because of illness (excluding
maternity leave) as a percentage of the total number of working or
calender days. The figures refer to all businesses and institutions,
until 2004 excluding the public sector. From 2005 also absence beyond one
year is included.
- Lifestyle
- Some factors that may influence health: smoking, drinking alcohol, being
overweight and use of the contraceptive pill.- Use of contraceptive pill
- Percentage of women aged 16 to 50 years who use an oral contraceptive.
In 2017-2019: percentage of sexually active women aged 16 to 50 years who use an oral contraceptive.
Percentages of 2017-2019 therefore can not be compared to earlier years. Percentages from 2020 onwards are comparable to figures of 2016 and before.
Sexually active women are women who have had sex in the 12 monthes preceeding the interview.
- Use of health care services
- Contacts with health professionals and hospital admissions.
- Contacts with health professionals
- Percentage of persons in the population aged 0 years or older who had contacted the health professional concerned at least once in the 12 months preceding the survey date.
Due to changes in methodology and questionnaire, data before and after 2010 cannot fully be compared.- General practitioner (GP)
- Contacts with a GP in the Netherlands:
- visits to a GP,
- GP home visits,
- telephone consultations,
- other contacts
Contacts with a locum and the emergency GP service are included, contacts
with the GP surgery assistant are not.
- Medical specialist
- Contacts with a specialist in the Netherlands:
- at the outpatient clinic,
- in hospital,
- at the emergency department,
- at practice outside the hospital or
- at a private clinic.
Contacts with specialists during hospital admissions are not included.
- Dentist
- Visits to a dentist in the Netherlands. Contacts with the dental
hygienist, orthodontist and oral surgeon are not included.
- Physiotherapist or exercise therapist
- Contact with a therapist for physical or exercise therapy. Physio- or
exercise therapy during hospital admission is not included.
Until 2010, the figures are restricted to physiotherapy.
- Alternative healer
- Contacts with a homeopath, anthroposophist, acupuncturist, chiropractor,
osteopath, phyto therapist or herbalist, naturopath, magnetizer or
paranormal healer, faith healer or religious healer and / or other healer.
- Hospital admissions by some diagnoses
- Overnight admissions to general and university hospitals and hospitals specialising in one type of disease. Admissions are included if the date of discharge is within the year under review. Starting 2013, one-day admissions are counted only in case of death of the patient or transport to an other hospital.
Diagnoses are recorded according to the 'International Classification of Diseases'. Up to 2013 version 9 was used (ICD-9-CM), From 2013 onwards version 10 (ICD-10) is used.
Diagnoses are classified according to the International Shortlist for Hospital Morbidity Tabulation (ISHMT). Categories are definied slightly different using ICD-9 (up to 2013) or ICD-10 (from 2013).
Figures on diagnoses refer to the principal diagnosis registered at each admission, as indicated at discharge form the hospital.
The figures are expressed per 10 000 of the population in the year under review.- Injury, poisoning, other external causes
- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes.
ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 800-999
ICD-10: S00-T98.- Total injury, poisoning, oth. ext. cause
- Total injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes.
ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 800-999
ICD-10: S00-T98.
- Intracranial injury
- ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 800.1-800.4, 800.6-800.9, 801.1-801.4, 801.6-801.9, 803.1-803.4,
803.6-803.9, 804.1-804.4, 804.6-804.9, 850-854
ICD-10: S06.
- Fracture of femur
- ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 820-821
ICD-10: S72.
- Fracture of lower leg, including ankle
- ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 823-824
ICD-10: S82.