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