Health and welfare

Health and welfare

1. One in five older people experience functional limitations
2. One in five children suffer from chronic diseases
3. One in five Dutch contact physiotherapist
4. AIDS death toll more than 4,300 since 1983
5. Well-educated women have highest life expectancy
6. Working voluntary carers take more time off
7. Murders up again in large cities
8. The Netherlands: an island of moderation within Europe
9. Older people with higher income in better health
10. More than one in ten people suffer from high blood pressure or migraine
11. Breast cancer mortality further down
12. Suicide mortality lowerst since 1975
13. People in Limburg feel less healthy
14. Cannabis use highest  among lower educated people
15. More home care in urban areas
16. Number of smokers still falling, unlike cigarette sales
17. Workforce composition differs between care sectors
18. More people in the Netherlands rely on alternative healers
19. Recently immigrated children more often drown
20. Medical care consumption by older people in the low-income brackets
21. Care spending up by 5.1 percent
22. Many more defaulters, slightly fewer uninsured in 2007
23. Traffic death toll further down
24. Fewer stroke and prostate cancer patients die within one year after their first hospitalisation
25. Proportion of uninsured not above average in all special-attention areas
26. More people adopt healthier lifestyle
27. Fewer hospital admissions following heart attacks
28. Old people receiving more and more care
29. Average Dutchman just as tall as in 2001