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Providing voluntary care takes its toll

More than one and a half million people in the Netherlands provide intensive or long-term voluntary care; 1 in 7 carers - about 220 thousand people - feel burdened to some extent. Most voluntary...

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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...

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Heavy smokers cut their lifespan by 13 years on average

One in four heavy smokers die before they turn 65

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Well-educated women have highest life expectancy

Lower educated people not only live shorter lives, their healthy life expectancy is shorter too. On average, men with only primary education enjoy no more than 50 years in good health, whereas...

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External causes of death

Survey on deaths caused by murder and manslaughter, suicide and accidents

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Dutch cancer mortality rate relatively high

In 2006, the Dutch cancer mortality rate was 187 in every 100 thousand, marginally above the average in the EU 27 of 175 per 100 thousand residents.

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Well-off people live longer in good health

Men and women from high-income households on average live about 8 and 7 years longer respectively than their counterparts in low-income households. The difference with respect to the number of years...

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Steep increase in day-patient admissions for chronic enteritis

Out-patient hospital admissions are becoming more and more common. The number of out-patient hospital admissions for chronic enteritis (e.g. Crohn’s disease) has risen far above average.

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6 in 10 Caribbean Dutch are overweight

Smoking behaviour, alcohol consumption, physical activity and obesity by sex and age, per municipality in the Caribbean Netherlands, 2017

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Lower income brackets have shorter healthy life expectancy

The average life expectancy of people living in households with incomes below the poverty line is approximately 5 years shorter than the life expectancy of higher incomes. The healthy life expectancy...

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Disability benefits down by 175 thousand in the space of ten years

At the end of June 2013, 818 thousand people in the Netherlands were claiming a disability benefit, 175 thousand fewer than at the end of December 2002, when the record number of claimants was...

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More suicides

Last year, 1,871 people in the Netherlands committed suicide, the highest number ever.

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More diabetics in obese population

Last year 4.8 percent in the Dutch population reported to have diabetes.

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Army medical statistics: a 19th century mine of information

We use statistics to build up our knowledge about society. This is an age-old idea of what statistics are for. In the words of Jan Ackersdyck, professor of statistics in Utrecht in the mid-19th...

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