Health and welfare

Health and welfare

1. Across the world more men than women smoke
2. Share of older nursing professionals rising sharply
3. Aids deaths now stable
4. 900 transsexuals in the Netherlands
5. Decrease in disability benefits slowing down
6. Obesity rate in the Netherlands lower than in other OECD countries
7. Sharp increase in life expectancy among older people
8. More employed develop burnout symptoms
9. Sickness absence lowest among hotel and restaurant workers
10. Majority think people with unhealthy lifestyle should pay more for health insurance
11. OTC medicines popular among women and higher educated
12. Preventive cancer screening quite common
13. More innovation, better education and more environmental awareness required to maintain current prosperity level
14. Dutch people generally feel healthy
15. More suicides
16. Use of anti-diabetics by ethnic background
17. Dramatic employment growth in care sector
18. Elderly people live independently to increasingly older ages
19. One in seven employees hindered by administrative chores
20. Fewer multiple births
21. Spending on health care and welfare levels off
22. People in deprived neighbourhoods slightly healthier
23. Three quarters of deliveries in hospital
24. Traffic deaths down again
25. Boys more susceptible to alcohol and drugs
26. Ten percent fewer people without medical insurance in 2010
27. Towards a better health expectancy
28. Cancer mortality higher, but risk of dying from cancer lower
29. Jobs in health care demanding, but also rewarding
30. More use of health care facilities over the past 30 years
31. Mental complaints mainly found in women, older people and lower educated