Health and health care; personal characteristics
| Characteristics | Margins | Periods | Self-perceived health Good or very good (%) | Mental Health Inventory (MHI-5),12 plus Feelings of anxiety or depression, 4 wks (%) | Oral Health Oral health, 12 years or older Good or very good (%) | Oral Health Oral health, 12 years or older Fair (%) | Oral Health Oral health, 12 years or older Bad or very bad (%) | Medical contacts Contact with GP Persons with at least 1 contact (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wealth: 1st 20%-group | Value | 2024 | 68.8 | 53.7 | 66.2 | 23.9 | 9.9 | 69.0 |
| Wealth: 1st 20%-group | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2024 | 66.1 | 50.7 | 63.3 | 21.3 | 8.2 | 66.3 |
| Wealth: 1st 20%-group | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2024 | 71.4 | 56.8 | 69.1 | 26.6 | 11.9 | 71.6 |
| Wealth: 2nd 20%-group | Value | 2024 | 67.9 | 49.5 | 68.9 | 23.6 | 7.5 | 72.2 |
| Wealth: 2nd 20%-group | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2024 | 65.3 | 46.6 | 66.1 | 21.2 | 6.1 | 69.6 |
| Wealth: 2nd 20%-group | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2024 | 70.5 | 52.4 | 71.6 | 26.2 | 9.2 | 74.6 |
| Wealth: 3rd 20%-group | Value | 2024 | 79.9 | 44.1 | 73.8 | 22.4 | 3.8 | 65.3 |
| Wealth: 3rd 20%-group | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2024 | 78.1 | 41.7 | 71.6 | 20.5 | 3.0 | 63.2 |
| Wealth: 3rd 20%-group | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2024 | 81.6 | 46.5 | 75.8 | 24.5 | 4.8 | 67.4 |
| Wealth: 4th 20%-group | Value | 2024 | 79.2 | 39.3 | 75.5 | 21.8 | 2.7 | 66.1 |
| Wealth: 4th 20%-group | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2024 | 77.5 | 37.1 | 73.5 | 20.0 | 2.1 | 64.0 |
| Wealth: 4th 20%-group | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2024 | 80.8 | 41.5 | 77.4 | 23.7 | 3.6 | 68.0 |
| Wealth: 5th 20%-group | Value | 2024 | 82.5 | 36.4 | 79.5 | 18.1 | 2.4 | 65.4 |
| Wealth: 5th 20%-group | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2024 | 80.9 | 34.4 | 77.8 | 16.6 | 1.8 | 63.4 |
| Wealth: 5th 20%-group | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2024 | 84.0 | 38.5 | 81.1 | 19.8 | 3.1 | 67.3 |
| Source: CBS. | ||||||||
Table explanation
This table contains data on the perceived state of health and on contacts with providers of medical care of the Dutch population from 0 years on in private households. These data can be grouped by several personal characteristics. For several topics a different age demarcation applies. The age boundaries are listed at the relevant topics.
Data available from: 2014
Status of the data: final.
Changes by April 3, 2025:
Data about 2024 were added.
The table has been expanded with a number of new variables.
In addition to the percentage of people with (very) good perceived health, the percentage of people who answer fair and (very) bad to the question about perceived health is now also shown.
The percentage of people who answer fair and (very) bad to the question about perceived oral health has also been added for perceived oral health. In addition, information about oral complaints (toothache and bleeding gums) has been added for people aged 12 years or older. Information about functional complaints has been added for people aged 65 years or older (chewing food and swallowing food).
Information about brushing teeth/molars and information about flossing, using a toothpick, and brushing for people aged 1 year or older has been added. Finally, a variable "Contact dentist and/or dental hygienist" has been added and 'Contact dental hygienist' is now shown for the entire population and no longer for people aged 12 years or older. Figures on the average number of ‘OECD disabilities per person in the population’ and on the average number of ‘OECD disabilities per person with at least 1 disability’ for education level, income and wealth in 2014 were corrected.
Changes by November 12, 2024:
The subject folder 'Mental Health Inventory (MHI-5), 12 plus' was added. There are two topics within this folder. Firstly, the new topic 'feelings of anxiety or depression, 4 wks'. Secondly, the topic 'psychological distress, past 4 weeks'. The latter topic could previously be found in this table under the name 'psychological distress (MHI-5<60), 12 plus'.
Furthermore, the subfolder 'persons with GALI disabilities, 4 years or older' was added under the 'disabilities' folder. There are three topics in that subfolder. Firstly, the topic of 'GALI limitation'. This concerns the figures that could previously be found directly under the 'disabilities' folder under the name 'Persons with GALI disability, 4 or older'. Secondly, the new topic 'GALI disability, severe'. And thirdly, the new topic 'GALI disability, not severe'.
When will new data be published?
Data on reporting year 2025 will be published in the second quarter of 2026.
Description topics
- Self-perceived health
- Good or very good
- Percentage of persons who answered ꞌgoodꞌ or ꞌvery goodꞌ to the question: ꞌHow do you assess your general state of health?ꞌ / ꞌHow does your child assess his, her general state of health?ꞌ. Parents or caretakers answer this question on behalf of children under the age of 12 years.
- Mental Health Inventory (MHI-5),12 plus
- The figures relate to the Mental Health Inventory 5 or ꞌMHI-5ꞌ. This is an international standard for a specific measuring of psychological distress, consisting of 5 questions. MHI-5 is actually an extract of ꞌShort Format 36ꞌ (SF-36), an elaborate international standard for measuring health. MHI-5 deals with questions related to how one felt during the last 4 weeks. The following questions were asked:
1. Did you feel very nervous?
2. Were you so down in the dump that nothing could cheer you up?
3. Did you feel calm and quiet?
4. Did you feel depressed and down?
5. Were you happy?
Every question has the following 6 answer categories: all the time, most of the time, often, sometimes, rarely, and never. The answer categories in positively worded questions of the MHI questionnaire (questions 3 and 5) have been consequently awarded the values 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and 0. The answer categories in negatively worded questions (questions 1, 2 ad 4) have been awarded the turned-down values. Next, per person the sum scores have been calculated and multiplied by 4, so that the minimum sum score of a person can be 0 (very unhealthy) and the maximum score 100 (perfectly healthy). A score of 60 or more means that a respondent has no psychological distress.
A score of less than 60 means that a person does have psychological distress.
Until 2023, instead of ‘psychological distress’, the term ‘poor mental health’ was used.
However, researchers at the Trimbos Institute determined in 2024 that the cut-off point of 60 as previously used was no longer sufficient for a number of reasons. The previous determination of the cut-off value of the MHI-5 used a method that depends on the prevalence of mental disorders. Because the prevalence has proven to be variable, this cut-off value is no longer sufficient. Furthermore, the classification of mental disorders has changed since the previous cut-off value determination: the DSM-5 is currently used, while the old cut-off value was based on the criteria of DSM-III-R. More information about recalibration of the MHI can be found in the fact sheet of the Trimbos Institute (see table explanation).
The variable 'Psychological distress, past 4 weeks' will therefore no longer be supplemented from 2024 and from September 2024 CBS will only include the series on the variable Feelings of anxiety or depression, 4 wks (last 4 weeks).- Feelings of anxiety or depression, 4 wks
- The percentage of people aged 12 years or older who score 76 or lower on the Mental Health Inventory (MHI-5) for adolescents aged 12 years and older and adults. These people have had feelings of anxiety or depression in the past 4 weeks.
- Oral Health
- Oral health, 12 years or older
- For the years 2019 to 2021, the figures refer to people aged 15 or older. As a result, the figures from before 2022 cannot be compared one-to-one with the figures from 2022 onwards.
- Good or very good
- Percentage of persons of 12 years or older who answered ‘good’ or ‘very good’ to the question: ‘How do you assess your general state of teeth and gum?’
- Fair
- Percentage of persons of 12 years or older who answered ‘fair’ to the question: ‘How do you assess your general state of teeth and gum?’
- Bad or very bad
- Percentage of persons of 12 years or older who answered ‘bad’ or ‘very bad’ to the question: ‘How do you assess your general state of teeth and gum?’
- Medical contacts
- Persons are asked if they had contact with their GP, specialist, dentist, dental hygienist, orthodontist, physiotherapist, exercise therapist, psychologist, psychotherapist or psychiatrist, and if he or she is treated by alternative healer. Also, if there were hospital admissions or day care admissions. For children up to 12 years old, these questions are answered by the parent/guardian. Most questions after medical contacts are asked to persons of all ages. Contacts that do not often occur in the case of children are posed from an older age.
- Contact with GP
- From 2021, the introductory text for the question about GP contacts has been changed to: Now something about contacts with the GP. This includes visits to the GP practice, home visits, telephone consultations, video calling, contacts via email or other e-consultations. Contacts with a replacement GP or with the GP post must also be included. Contacts with the practice assistant and the practice nurse should not be included.
Until 2021, the introductory text was 'Contacts with the GP include visits to the GP practice, home visits and telephone consultations. Contacts with a replacement GP or with the GP post also count. Contacts with the practice assistant and the practice nurse do not count.'
Contacts in the 12 months prior to the survey date are asked in the questionnaire. The questions are asked to respondents of all ages.- Persons with at least 1 contact
- Percentage of persons in the population who contacted a GP at least once in the 12 months preceding the interview.