Health and welfare
Filter by year:- Lower income brackets have shorter healthy life expectancy
- Most satisfied and a tad overweight
- Over 300 000 people defaulting on their health insurance payments
- Living a happy, healthy and satisfying life
- Financial position care-providing institutions often precarious
- Older people often suffer from multiple diseases
- Overweight and underweight people more often depressive
- Infant mortality highest among first-generation non-westerners
- Breast cancer mortality higher
- Dutch cancer mortality rate relatively high
- On average, 65-year-old men have 11 healthy years ahead of them
- Health care costs in the Netherlands just under EU average
- Most people in the Netherlands live within 5 km from a hospital facility
- Private accident most common cause of non-natural death
- More men murdered in 2008
- No further increase in medical aids
- Care-providing institutions in the red after introduction Wmo
- Growing number of skin cancer-related hospital admissions
- Municipalities budget 2.6 billion euro for individual care
- Most people have their GP close by
- Expenditure on care 6.2 percent up
- People more concerned about losing their jobs
- More people defaulting on health insurance payments
- Dramatic decline fatal road accidents in 2008
- More than 170 thousand people have no health insurance
- Older singles more often unhealthy
- 4 percent in Dutch population suffer from diabetes mellitus
- Improvement in healthy lifestyle stagnating
- Number of hospital admissions for pneumonia and acute bronchitis doubled since 1981
- More health care provided with fewer hospital beds
- Fewer women give birth at home
- Healthy life expectancy higher
- Cancer number one cause of death in 2008
- 800 thousand adults have dental implants
- Strong increase in mental health care