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New steps in big data for traffic and transport statistics
Is it possible to combine new data sources, like road sensors in motorways, GPS data and camera footage with information from questionnaires?
Slightly more children diagnosed with dyslexia
The percentage of children suffering from dyslexia has risen slightly since 2001.
More use of health care facilities over the past 30 years
Over the past 30 years, the use of health care facilities has obviously increased. The proportion of people consulting a GP, dentist or physiotherapist has risen and people take more medicines.
Three-quarters of population in the Caribbean Netherlands report good health
Three in four people aged 15 and older in the Caribbean Netherlands rate their health as good or very good. Sixty percent of the population are overweight. Three-quarters of the population had...
Diabetics are often older, overweight males
Last year, 4 percent of people in the Netherlands were diabetic patients. Among them are more older, male and overweight people than among non-diabetics.
Health, lifestyle, use of medical facilities; 2000-2009
Medical consumption, health and disorders, physical impediments and lifestyle by characteristics of the consumer.
Daily time use
Daily time use in hours and in % participation Time use, gender
Young people in low-income households more often overweight
Approximately 15 percent of 2 to 25-year-olds struggle with overweight. Young members of low-income households are more often overweight and have more GP contacts than their counterparts in the...
People in Limburg feel less healthy
A majority in the Dutch population evaluate their own health as ranging from good to excellent. Nearly one in five individuals evaluate their own state of health as rather poor.
Profits of medical specialists rise by 8 percent in 2001-2009
Profits of independently practising medical specialists in the Netherlands rose by an average 8.3 percent annually in the period 2001 to 2009. Independent general practitioners and dentists realised...
More and more people take medicines
In 2004 the number of people in the Netherlands taking prescribed or unprescribed medicines increased further. Contraceptive pill use among women continued to decline. People had fewer GP contacts...
Nearly 1 million people seek alternative treatments
In the period 2010-2012, an average of nearly 1 million people reported to have consulted alternative healers in the past year, i.e. nearly 6 percent in the Dutch population. Acupuncture treatments...
Medical care consumption by older people in the low-income brackets
In 2006 more 55 to 80-year-olds living on long-term low incomes consulted medical specialists and physiotherapists than people in the same age category with incomes above the low-income threshold.
Care spending up by 5.1 percent
In 2007, total spending on care, i.e. health care plus welfare services, amounted to 74 billion euro, a 5.1 percent increase relative to 2006.
Expenditure on care growing more slowly in 2003
Dutch expenditure on care in 2003 increased by 8.4 percent to almost 57 billion euro. In 2001 and 2002 care expenditure increased by 11.4 and 11.8 percent. Expenditure on health care went up by 8.2...
More and more people with diabetes
According to figures released this week by Statistics Netherlands, the percentage of people in the Netherlands reporting that they have diabetes has risen substantially since the beginning of this...
Spending on health care and welfare levels off
According to the most recent figures, the costs of health care and welfare amounted to 87.6 billion euro in 2010, a 3.6 percent increase relative to 2009. Over the period 2004-2008, the costs of care...
Gap closed between male and female COPD-related hospital admissions
In 1995, more men than women were admitted to hospital for chronic pulmonary diseases. Subsequently, the gender gap gradually narrowed and has currently disappeared altogether. COPD typically...