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.- Occurrence of infectious diseases
- Some notifiable infectious diseases and HIV/AIDS.
- Notifiable infectious diseases
- Infectious diseases that are required under the Public Health Act to be
reported to the Area Health Authority.
The table includes only infectious diseases:
- for which data are available for more than 20 years,
- with at least more than 100 cases in one year of observation,
- for which all the figures refer to (more or less) the same disease
- for which figures give an overall impression of the absolute extent,
trends and outbreaks.- Diphtheria
- ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 032;
ICD-10: A30.
Included in the National Vaccination Programme since 1957.
Notification requirement since 1872.
- 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.- 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.
- 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.- Diseases of the nervous system
- ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 320-359, 435
ICD-10: G00-G99.
From 2013 onwards ISHMT-definitions use ICD-10, resulting in inclusion of sleaping disorders in disdases of the nervous system.
- Diseases of the eye and adnexa
- Including adjoining and accompanying structures such as eye socket,
eyelids, tear gland and eye nerve.
ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 360-379
ICD-10: H00-H59.
- Diseases of the ear and mastoid process
- ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 380-389
ICD-10: H60-H95.
- Diseases of the circulatory system
- ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 390-434, 436-445, 447-459
ICD-10: I00-I99.- Total dis. of the circulatory system
- Total diseases of the circulatory system
ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 390-434, 436-445, 447-459
ICD-10: I00-I99.
- Angina pectoris
- ICD-code:
ICD-9: 413
ICD-10: I20.
- Acute myocardial infarction
- ICD-code:
ICD-9: 410
ICD-10: I21-I22.
- Conduction disord. and card. disrhythm.
- Conduction disorders and cardiac arrhythmias
ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 426-427
ICD-10: I44-I49.
- Heart failure
- ICD-code:
ICD-9: 428
ICD-10: I50.
- Cerebrovascular diseases
- ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 430-434, 436-438
ICD-10: I60-I69.
- Diseases of the respiratory system
- ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 034.0, 460-519
ICD-10: J00-J99.- Total dis. of the respiratory system
- Total diseases of the respiratory system
ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 034.0, 460-519
ICD-10: J00-J99.
- Acute upper respirat. inf. & influenza
- Acute upper respiratory infections and influenza.
ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 034.0, 460-465, 487, 488
ICD-10: J00-J11.
- Pneumonia
- ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 480-486
ICD-10: J12-J18.
- Chronic dis. of tonsils and adenoids
- Chronic diseases of tonsils and adenoids.
ICD-code:
ICD-9: 474
ICD-10: J35.
- Other dis. of upper respiratory tract
- Other diseases of upper respiratory tract.
ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 470-473, 475-478
ICD-10: J30-J34, J36-J39.
- Chron. pulmonary dis. and bronchiect.
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchiectasis.
ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 490-492, 494, 496
ICD-10: J40-J44, J47.