Health, lifestyle, health care use and supply, causes of death; key figures
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This table provides an overview of the key figures on health and care available on StatLine. All figures are taken from other tables on StatLine, either directly or through a simple conversion. In the original tables, breakdowns by characteristics of individuals or other variables are possible.
The period after the year of review before data become available differs between the data series.
The number of exam passes/graduates in year t is the number of persons who obtained a diploma in school/study year starting in t-1 and ending in t.
Data available from: 2001
Status of the figures:
2023:
The available figures are definite.
2022:
Most available figures are definite, figures are provisional for:
- diagnoses known to the general practitioner;
- supplied drugs;
- AWBZ/Wlz-financed care with accommodation;
- AWBZ/Wlz-funded long term care;
- Mbo health care graduates, Hbo nursing graduates, medicine graduates (university);
- expenditures of care;
- profitability and operating results at institutions.
2021:
Most available figures are definite.
Figures are provisional for:
- hospital admissions by some diagnoses;
- average period of hospitalization;
- physicians and nurses employed in care;
- persons employed in health and welfare.
Figures are revised provisional for:
- expenditures of care.
2020:
Most available figures are final.
Figures are revised provisional for:
- expenditures of care.
2019 and earlier:
All available figures are definite.
Changes as of 22 December 2023:
More recent figures have been added for:
- crude birth rate;
- live births to teenage mothers;
- causes of death;
- perinatal mortality at pregnancy duration at least 24 weeks;
- life expectancy in perceived good health;
- diagnoses known to the general practitioner;
- supplied drugs;
- AWBZ/Wlz-funded long term care;
- youth care;
- average distance to facilities;
- profitability and operating results at institutions.
Changes as of 7 July 2023:
The series 'Hbo nursing graduates' and 'medicine graduates (university)' have been replaced from 2016 for figures rounded to tens.
When will new figures be published?
New figures will be published in December 2024.
Description topics
- 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.
- Life expectancy in perceived good health
- The number of years a person can expect to live in perceived good health, assuming the mortality risk and risks for good/poor health remain the same.
People are considered healthy when answering 'good' or 'very good' to the CBS Health Survey question 'How is your health in general?' .- At birth, men
- At birth, women
- At age 65, men
- At age 65, women
- 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'.
- 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.
- Average period of hospitalisation
- Number of nursing days in a given period divided by the number of patients admitted.
- Contacts with health professionals
- Number of contacts with general practitioners and physiotherapists/exercise therapist 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
Includes contacts with locums and emergency GP service; excludes contacts with GP surgery assistant/nurse.
Due to changes in methodology of the health interview questionniare in 2014, figures before and after are not completely comparable
- Physiotherapist or exercise therapist
- Contact with a therapist for physical or exercise therapy. Physiotherapy or exercise therapy during hospital admission is not included.
Until 2010, the figures are restricted to physiotherapy.
- 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.- Mental health care
- Persons with a care package (zzp) Mental health care
Long-term residence in a mental health institution
Care for persons with mental and/or psychiatric problems on the basis of a care severity package (zzp) in the Mental Health Care sector (GGZ), insofar as this is financed from the Wlz/AWBZ (also called long-term GGZ).
- Determinants of health
- Determinants of health: factors influencing health.
Data on smoking, alcohol consumption, exercise, obesity and high blood pressure, derived from the CBS Health Survey.- Heavy drinkers (12 years or older)
- Percentage of persons in the population aged 12 years or older who are heavy drinkers. Up to 2012 the definition of a heavy drinker was a person that drinks at least 6 glasses of alcohol on one day at least once a week. From 2012 onwards there is a distinction between men and women. For men still goes that a heavy drinker is a person who drinks at least 6 glasses of alcohol on one day at least once a week. For women goes that a heavy drinker is a person who drinks at least 4 glasses of alcohol on one day at least once a week. Due to this change in definition the figures of before 2012 and from 2012 onwards cannot be compared very well.
- Comply physical activity guidelines (4+)
- Percentage of people of 4 years or older who comply with the physical activity guidelines.
Adults should be physically active at moderate intensity for at least two and a half hours every week, spread over several days, such as walking and cycling. In addition, they should perform muscle- and bone-strengthening activities at least twice a week.
Young people from 4 to 17 years old should be physically active at moderate intensity for at least one hour every day, and they should perform muscle- and bone-strengthening activities at least three times a week.
The physical activity guidelines were drawn up by the Dutch Health Council at the end of 2017.
- High blood pressure (12 years or older)
- Percentage of persons aged 12 years and older who answered 'yes' to the question:
'Have you suffered from hypertension in the last 12 months?'.
Until 2010, the percentage refers to the total population, under the assumption that younger people do not have high blood pressure.
- Education and labour market
- 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;
- 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).
- Providers of mental health care
- Providers of mental health care Psychiatric hospitals, psychiatrists and ambulatory mental health services.
- 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.- 86104 Mental health hospitals
- Mental health and substance abuse hospitals
SBI class 86104 includes:
- Specialist medical centres for treatment and care with the possibility of full-time residential care, specifically focused on psychological syndromes, e.g. general psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric clinics for children and adolescents;
- Clinics for treatment and care of drug addicts with the possibility of full-time residential care (addiction clinics);
- Treatment of people who have committed or who threaten to commit an offence and for psychiatric disorders, e.g. forensic-psychiatric hospitals, institutions for TBS (i.e. convicted persons placed under a hospital order) with the possibility of full-time residential care;
- Institutions for care and supervision in a protected environment (full-time residential care) of psychiatric patients with psychosocial problems and reduced ability to cope, such as regional institutions for sheltered housing.
Up to and including 2014, also SBI class 86222 was included, containing practices of psychiatrists and day-care centers for social health.
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.- 86104 Mental health hospitals
- Mental health and substance abuse hospitals
SBI class 86104 includes:
- Specialist medical centres for treatment and care with the possibility of full-time residential care, specifically focused on psychological syndromes, e.g. general psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric clinics for children and adolescents;
- Clinics for treatment and care of drug addicts with the possibility of full-time residential care (addiction clinics);
- Treatment of people who have committed or who threaten to commit an offence and for psychiatric disorders, e.g. forensic-psychiatric hospitals, institutions for TBS (i.e. convicted persons placed under a hospital order) with the possibility of full-time residential care;
- Institutions for care and supervision in a protected environment (full-time residential care) of psychiatric patients with psychosocial problems and reduced ability to cope, such as regional institutions for sheltered housing.
Up to and including 2014, also SBI class 86222 was included, containing practices of psychiatrists and day-care centers for social health.
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).