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The majority of the Dutch population perceive their own health as good or very good. Women and older people less often feel healthy. Health perception also depends on the number of chronic diseases.

One in five people aged 55-80 years in the Netherlands experienced one or more functional limitations in 2007. Mobility problems were the most common, although the number of older people with these...

Chronic diseases are often accompanied by other long-lasting disorders, especially in older people. People with chronic arthritis nearly always suffer from at least one and often more than one other...

Custom-made tables on the relationship between chronic illness, perception of health and chance of employment, corrected for demographic characteristics and other determinants for chance of...

Only 7 percent of unemployed chronic patients in 2008 had managed to find jobs one year later.

Dutch pilot data collection for Eurostat Morbidity Statistics, with data on diseases and disorders in the Netherlands in 2016, from registered diagnostic information in medical registers, by age and...

Persons to whom medicines were dispensed by medicine group (ATC), age and sex in absolute figures and as percentage of the total population

People aged 45 and over with type 2 diabetes are more likely to suffer from other long-term disorders.

One in ten people in the Netherlands suffered from obesity in 2012. They are much more likely to develop diabetes type 2, high blood pressure, degenerative joint disease and cardiovascular disease...

Due to chronic disorders, older employees are more often absent from work than their younger counterparts. Older employees more often suffer from disorders related to high sickness absence rates,...

Health, chronic disorders, use of health care sex, age, eduational level, ethnicity, income level