Health and welfare

Health and welfare

1. Relatively more Turkish women and Moroccan men than native Dutch report feel depressed
2. Nearly 6 percent of adults receive long-term care on medical grounds
3. Growth in spending on health care in the Netherlands and the OECD levelling off
4. Medical professionals ageing
5. More than 6 in 10 people wear glasses or contact lenses
6. Increase skin cancer mortality
7. Nearly 60 percent die from cancer or cardiovascular diseases
8. Vast regional differences in overweight and smoking and drinking behaviour
9. Young people in low-income households more often overweight
10. Steep increase in day-patient admissions for chronic enteritis
11. Around three-quarters of population see GP and dentist once a year
12. Life expectancy hardly changed in 2012
13. Dutch labour market dynamics
14. Care spending 3.7 percent up
15. Fewer traffic deaths in 2012
16. Providing voluntary care takes its toll
17. Population thinks government should take care of vulnerable groups
18. Average costs per capita covered by basic health care insurance 2,100 euro
19. Parents happier in period around birth of first child
20. Teenage mortality dramatically down since 1970s
21. Mothers with non-western background closing maternity care gap
22. More spending on care mainly due to larger care volume