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
- 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).
- Total expenditure by care providers
- Total expenditure on all providers of health and social care.
- 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 long-term care for elderly
- Nursing homes, homecare institutions, residential care for the elderly and households.
Nursing homes: A government-recognised institution where patients who do not require hospital admittance are nursed and treated.
Homecare institutions: Institutions providing various types of assistance, e.g. home help, home nursing, maternity care. Homecare is administered to avoid admission in a hospital or nursing home.
- 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.
- Primary care practices
- General practitioner’s (GP) practices, Practices of dentists, Paramedics and midwife practices
GP practices
Units of licensed physicians that provide general medical care to a fixed
number of registered patients.
Practices of dentists
Units that provide dental care. Dental care comprises diagnostics, preventive dental care, prosthetic and orthodontic dental care, basic dental surgery.
Paramedics and midwife practices
Physiotherapist's practices and other paramedic professionals, e.g. occupational therapists, speech therapists, dieticians, remedial
therapists, midwives, etc.
- Providers of mental health care
- Providers of mental health care Psychiatric hospitals, psychiatrists and ambulatory mental health services.
- Other care providers
- Other providers of health and social care and administration and management institutions.
Administration and management institutions:
Health Care Insurance Board (Health Insurance Fund up to 2006; Health Insurance Act since 2006; Exceptional Medical Expenses Act); Private health and social care insurance companies; Ministry of Health; local government.
- Per capita care expenditure
- Total care expenditure calculated per capita.
- Expenditure as percentage of the GDP
- Total expenditure on care expressed as a percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP).