Health and welfare
Filter by year:- More than 150 work-related accidents a year
- Some 100 thousand fewer smokers
- The Netherlands as a heavy-weight nation
- More burn-out among hotel and restaurant staff
- More women and older people with a disability affecting their capacity to work
- One quarter of a million people without health insurance
- Fewer and fewer people with dentures
- More people going for flu jabs
- Pill still the most popular contraceptive
- High response rates for preventive medical screening
- More and more people taking medicines
- One in nine people who die suffer from dementia
- Pressure of work down further
- More noise, less stench
- Women have more health problems despite healthier life style
- Smokers smoke for 24 years on average
- Sharp rise in spending on home care
- Sharp increase in spending on care in 2002
- Half the population suffers from chronic disease
- Mental problems biggest hindrance to work
- Lower educated more often incapacitated
- Slightly fewer road deaths in 2002
- More work for occupational health and safety agencies
- Over 46.6 billion euro spent on care in 2001