Health and welfare

Health and welfare

1. One in nine young Dutch people is overweight
2. Unfavourable development in mortality risk of newborns
3. Regional differences in rates of overweight inhabitants
4. Sickness absence down to 4.7 percent
5. More and more women dying of lung cancer
6. First heat-related deaths in June
7. Glasses: inevitable in the long run
8. Fewer people work against the clock
9. More people visit dentists and physiotherapist
10. Expenditure on care growing more slowly in 2003
11. More smokers among people with depression
12. More traffic deaths in 2003
13. Differences in hospital admissions between ethnic groups
14. One in five elderly have mobility problems
15. Depression and stress in the workplace
16. Gases, fumes and dust in the workplace