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Lower income brackets have shorter healthy life expectancy
Most satisfied and a tad overweight
Over 300 000 people defaulting on their health insurance payments
Living a happy, healthy and satisfying life
Financial position care-providing institutions often precarious
Older people often suffer from multiple diseases
Overweight and underweight people more often depressive
Infant mortality highest among first-generation non-westerners
Breast cancer mortality higher
Dutch cancer mortality rate relatively high
On average, 65-year-old men have 11 healthy years ahead of them
Health care costs in the Netherlands just under EU average
Most people in the Netherlands live within 5 km from a hospital facility
Private accident most common cause of non-natural death
More men murdered in 2008
No further increase in medical aids
Care-providing institutions in the red after introduction Wmo
Growing number of skin cancer-related hospital admissions
Municipalities budget 2.6 billion euro for individual care
Most people have their GP close by
Expenditure on care 6.2 percent up
People more concerned about losing their jobs
More people defaulting on health insurance payments
Dramatic decline fatal road accidents in 2008
More than 170 thousand people have no health insurance
Older singles more often unhealthy
4 percent in Dutch population suffer from diabetes mellitus
Improvement in healthy lifestyle stagnating
Number of hospital admissions for pneumonia and acute bronchitis doubled since 1981
More health care provided with fewer hospital beds
Fewer women give birth at home
Healthy life expectancy higher
Cancer number one cause of death in 2008
800 thousand adults have dental implants
Difficult groups in survey research and the development of tailor-made approach strategies
Strong increase in mental health care
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