Health, lifestyle, health care use and supply, causes of death; key figures

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Births, deaths and life expectancy

Crude birth rate, the number of live births to teenage mothers and older mothers, some causes of death, perinatal mortality, life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.

Crude birth rate

Live born children per thousand of the average population.

Live births to teenage mothers

Live born children to mothers younger than 20 years at the infant's birth.

Mother’s age (exact):
The number of whole years that have passed since the mother's date of birth.

Live born child:
A baby showing some sign of life after birth, regardless of the duration of pregnancy.

Live births to 35+ mothers

Live born children to mothers aged 35 years or older at the infant's birth.

Mother’s age (exact):
The number of whole years that have passed since the mother's date of birth.

Live born child:
A baby showing some sign of life after birth, regardless of the duration of pregnancy.

Live births to 40+ mothers

Live born children to mothers aged 40 years or older at the infant's birth.

Mother’s age (exact):
The number of whole years that have passed since the mother's date of birth.

Live born child:
A baby showing some sign of life after birth, regardless of the duration of pregnancy.

Some causes of death

Deaths by main primary cause of death per 10 000 of the average population.
In addition to relative figures for road traffic accidents and suicides, absolute numbers are also presented.

The basis for the classification and coding used for mortality by cause of death is the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD; World Health Organisation (WHO)), version 10.

Average population
The average population in agegroup L for year t is calculated as follows:
((Population in agegroup (L) on January 1st year t)+
(Population in agegroup (L) on January 1st year t+1))/2.
The calculation of the average of children at the age of zero years differs from this definition and has been calculated as follows:
((live births in year t)+(children aged zero years on 1 January of year t+1))/2.

Suicide and self-inflicted injury

Suicide and self-inflicted injury.
ICD-codes:
ICD-10: X60-X84;
ICD-9: E950-E959;
ICD-8: E950-E959.

Health and disease

Perceived health, contacts with the GP and hospital admissions for some diagnoses, sickness absence

Self-perceived health less than good

People answering 'moderate', 'poor' and 'very poor' to the question 'Generally speaking, how is your health?'. Other possible answers are 'good' or 'very good'.

Hospital admissions by some diagnoses

Clinical and day care admissions and observations without overnight stay in general and university hospitals and two hospitals specialising in one type of disease.

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.

Dis. musculoskeletal syst. and connectiv

Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue.
ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 099.3, 136.1, 279.4, 446, 710-739
ICD-10: M00-M99.

Sickness absence

Sickness absence rate.
The number of days employees are absent because of illness (excluding maternity leave) as a percentage of the total number of working or calendar days.

Use of health care services

Average period of hospitalisation, supplied drugs, number of contacts with health care providers, AWBZ/Wlz- funded long term care, including persons older than 80 in the population, youth care.

Wlz/AWBZ-funded long term care

Residential care funded under the Chronic Care Act (Wlz) and (before 2015) under the Exceptional Medical Expenses Act (AWBZ).

Use of Wlz/AWBZ-funded residential care

The number of persons aged 18 years or older at the end of the year (second Friday of November) receiving residential care, funded under the Chronic Care Act (Wlz) and (before 2015) under the Exceptional Medical Expenses Act (AWBZ), and for which a personal contribution was paid.

Residential care includes all care received in kind in an institution, for which a personal contribution must be paid and the costs of which are borne by the Wlz/AWBZ.
Short stay in an institution is also included.



Persons under 18 years of age do not have to pay a personal contribution.



As of 2011, residential care is classified according to the type of care received, expressed in care severity packages (zzp's).

There are zzps for Nursing and Care (VV), Disability Care (GHZ) and Long-Term Mental Health Care (GGZ) sectors.

Nursing and care

Persons with a care package (zzp) Nursing and Care

Care for the elderly and chronically ill on the basis of a care package (zzp) in the Nursing and Care (VV) sector.

Education and labour market

Physicians employed in care

Qualified medically trained physicians and medical specialists registered in the BIG register (the Dutch central register of specific health care professions), who are employed in the Dutch care sector; resident in the Netherlands or abroad.

Dutch care sector
Organisations with a code in the Statistics Netherlands' Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities (SBI) starting with 85 (SBI 1993) or 86, 87 or 88 (SBI 2008).

Nurses employed in care

Qualified nurses registered in the BIG register (the Dutch central register of specific health care professions), who are employed in the Dutch care sector; resident in the Netherlands or abroad.


Dutch care sector
Organisations with a code in the Statistics Netherlands' Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities (SBI) starting with 85 (SBI 1993) or 86, 87 or 88 (SBI 2008).

Employed in health and welfare

Persons employed in a Netherlands-based company or a private household in the Netherlands, with main activities in health care and welfare.

This sector includes:
- treatment in general and specialised hospitals;
- mental health and addiction care, possibly in combination with overnight admission;
- treatment at medical and paramedical practices;
- support activities for health care, e.g. laboratories and ambulance services;
- nursing care or assistance with housing by, e.g. nursing homes or organisations for assisted living schemes;
- welfare care, such as home care, local welfare and assistance to disabled and elderly persons;
- childcare.

Employed in health care

Persons employed in a Netherlands-based company or a private household in the Netherlands, with main activities in health care.

This sector includes:
- treatment in general and specialised hospitals;
- mental health and addiction care, possibly in combination with overnight admission;
- treatment at medical and paramedical practices;
- support activities for health care, e.g. laboratories and ambulance services;

Mbo caring graduates

Graduates of senior secondary vocational education (mbo) with a qualification to become a carer (verzorgde individuele gezondheidszorg)

Mbo nursing graduates

Graduates of senior secondary vocational education (mbo) with a qualification to become a nurse

Hbo nursing graduates

Graduates form higher professional education (hbo) with a bachelor's degree in nursing.

Medicine graduates (university)

Persons with a university masters degree in medicine.

Expenditures on care

Expenditure on care

Expenditure on health and social care including child care, by type of supplier. All activities within the area of health and social care are considered, irrespective of whether it concerns a major or minor activity of the economic units. These figures refer to a broader definition than internationally used in the System of Health Accounts, that refers to health care including long term nursing care (health).

Hospitals and medical specialists

Institutions and practices in which during day and/or night all kinds of medical specialistic curative care is offered.
Hospital: A formally recognised institution where medical specialists provide round-the-clock medical care.
Practice of medical specialist: Medical care provided by a certified medical specialist (excluding help provided in hospitals).

Providers of care for the handicapped

Integrated institutions for the handicapped; Social pedagogical services; Provision of goods and services by municipalities; Interpreters for the deaf; Institutes providing guide dogs for the blind; Households.

Care supply

Quantitative data on care providers: distance to care provider, institutions with small profitability, share of overhead in institutions.

Care institutions with profitability <0%

Percentage of companies in a certain SBI class (SBI = Dutch Standard Industrial Classification) whose profitability is less than 0%.

Profitability

Profitability is the sum of the operating result, financial result and extraordinary items, divided by total earnings. It is an indicator of how profitable the company is.

SBI 2008: Statistics Netherlands' Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities 2008.

The SBI is a systematic hierarchical classification of economic activities. The most recent version is SBI 2008. It is used by Statistics Netherlands among other things to classify business entities according to their main activity.
The SBI 2008 has six levels. The SBI codes to the level of classes (4 digits), with a number of exceptions, the same as determined by Eurostat NACE REV. 1 (Nomenclature statistique des activités économiques dans la Communauté Européenne) which is used in all EU Member States. The sub-class, denoted by 5 digits, is a further detailed breakdown by the Netherlands.

Nursing homes and home care

Institutions providing care for the elderly and home care, consisting of SBI classes 8710, 87302 and 88101.

SBI class 8710 includes:
- Intensive care, nursing care and treatment in a protected environment (full-time residence) of patients who require continuous assistance because of chronic physical and mental problems and reduced ability to cope with activities of daily living
- Housing facilities for terminally ill patients with private nurses, also referred to as high-care hospices.

SBI class 87302 includes:
- Care and counselling in a protected environment (full-time residence) of older people with physical and mental problems and reduced self-sufficiency;
- Residential care centres: independent housing facilities for the elderly which focus on sheltered housing with care and service arrangements that are contractually separated;
- Housing facilities for terminally ill patients without their own nursing staff, also called ‘almost-home houses’.

SBI class 88101 includes:
- Nursing, personal and home care at home for chronically ill, elderly and disabled persons and people who temporarily require this kind of care.
- Assistance during childbirth, home and personal care for mother and child and provision of information about child care during the postpartum period.

Up to and including 2014, only health care institutions were included which were funded under the Health Insurance (Zvw) or General Exceptional Medical Expenses Act (AWBZ).

Operating result per fte

Total operating result divided by total number of full-time equivalents (fte) of employees.
The full-time equivalents is a measure of labour volume, calculated by converting all full-time and part-time jobs to full-time jobs.
An employee is a person carrying out work in return for remuneration.

Nursing homes and home care

Institutions providing care for the elderly and home care, consisting of SBI classes 8710, 87302 and 88101.

SBI class 8710 includes:
- Intensive care, nursing care and treatment in a protected environment (full-time residence) of patients who require continuous assistance because of chronic physical and mental problems and reduced ability to cope with activities of daily living
- Housing facilities for terminally ill patients with private nurses, also referred to as high-care hospices.

SBI class 87302 includes:
- Care and counselling in a protected environment (full-time residence) of older people with physical and mental problems and reduced self-sufficiency;
- Residential care centres: independent housing facilities for the elderly which focus on sheltered housing with care and service arrangements that are contractually separated;
- Housing facilities for terminally ill patients without their own nursing staff, also called ‘almost-home houses’.

SBI class 88101 includes:
- Nursing, personal and home care at home for chronically ill, elderly and disabled persons and people who temporarily require this kind of care.
- Assistance during childbirth, home and personal care for mother and child and provision of information about child care during the postpartum period.

Up to and including 2014, only health care institutions were included which were funded under the Health Insurance (Zvw) or General Exceptional Medical Expenses Act (AWBZ).