Netherlands Leading countries in terms of direct investments
Medium HALE and Life Expectancy
Medium Gap between HALE and Life Expectancy
Final Longevity Progressiveness Ranking: #18
Final Longevity Progressiveness Score: 0.673
Practical Recommendation Summary: Smoking, drinking and obesity are main behavioral factors of bad health which should be addressed. Large inequalities in health persist according to education and income. On the positive side, public health policies are starting to tackle this, but may need time to become effective.
Practical Recommendations (Full):
● Bridge the gap between health professionals and data scientist by utilising AI for Healthy Longevity. AI offers a range of effective and innovative solutions to medical problems, revolutionizing medical domain. Machine learning makes diagnosing more efficient. It processes information with less time and provide generated data with the right context.
● Reduce socioeconomic inequalities in health at individual and population level. Behavioural risk factors tend to be more common among people at a disadvantage because of a lesser education or lower income.
● Address rising burden of non-communicable disease. Lifestyle risk behaviours are responsible for a large proportion of disease burden and premature mortality worldwide. Risk behaviours tend to cluster in populations. Non-communicable disease are caused by the set of emerging risk factors (sleep, sitting time, and social participation) and unique risk combinations and their associations with all-cause and cardio-metabolic mortality.
● Utilize AI for financial wellness. Ageing of the population is a rising issue for healthcare and pension systems stability in Netherlands. The utilization of novel forms of financial data to enable AI-empowered AgeTech and WealthTech services may help to maintain complemeted balance between advances in “wealthspan” and “healthspan”.
● Enable patient-centered care with information technology systems. Embracement of technology in health care will lead to personalization and improvement of the quality of medical care through close coordination between patients, caregivers, and professionals.
● Accelerate the paradigm shift from disease treatment and sick care to preventive medicine, and from preventive medicine to precision health.
SWOT Analysis
Strengths:
● There was a considerable decrease in the mortality rate from cardiovascular diseases for the past years.
● People enjoy good access to a dense network of effective primary and secondary care providers and generous long-term care.
● Amenable mortality in the Netherlands is very low, indicating (together with other relevant indicators) that the health care system is effective.
● Access to healthcare is good as number of unmet needs is low
Weaknesses:
● General practitioners may not be supported sufficiently to identify mental disorders and treat patients with less severe mental health problems.
● Health system is one of the most expensive in the EU.
● More than a quarter of overall diseases burden is linked to is linked to behavioural risk factors – including smoking, poor diet, low physical activity, and alcohol use.
● Health inequality persist according to income status and education.
● There is the disagreement on proper role of market mechanisms in regulation of the healthcare system.
Opportunities:
● There is little room to improve cancer care to boost the survival.
● Comprehensive government-led policies policy addressing mental health promotion and prevention.
● Implement policies to ease the costs of population ageing.
● Generating of additional funds to finance advanced technologies and approaches in health.
● Increase the availability of intermediate care, to improve hospital transitions.
Threats:
● High healthcare spending in Netherlands generates additional pressure on the budget.
● Obesity rates are on the rise as there were only 11% of obese adults in 2011 compared to 13% of obese adults in 2015 with the increase by 20%.
● Illicit stimulants are commonly used without now sign of stabilisation.
● 1 in 6 people in Netherlands live with hypertension, 1 in 18 with asthma and 1 in 12 with chronic depression.
● Ageing of the population is a rising issue for healthcare and pension systems stability
SWOT Conclusions
Strengths Analysis:
● Over 80% of overall healthcare spending are publicly funded and health spending per capita is also higher than the EU average.
● Amenable mortality in Netherlands is very low that is the evidence for the effectiveness of the medical system in treating life-threatening conditions.
● Primary care is strong. Diversified public healthcare services portfolio include services such as health promotion, screening and vaccination, and youth health care.
● The number of acute beds and outpatient clinics continue to grow steadily.
● Healthcare system is characterized with good geographical accessibility, developed both eHealth and physical infrastructure.
Weaknesses Analysis:
● There is a decline in healthy years of life for the additional time that older people have to live: only 57% of additionally expected years to have than can spend without disability for men and 45% for women.
● There is a significant incidents of deaths for elders from cancer and CDVs that could be avoided through the improvements of treatments and preventive care.
● There are certain disparities for the people from different income groups and with different level of education. Only 2% of representatives from low income group report to have poor health while 10% of low income quintile report to have weak health.
● 26% of burden of diseases are linked to the behaviour risk factors such as smoking, bad diet, low physical activity and drinking.
● The shortage of nurses is emerging that becomes a great concern for the healthcare system in Netherlands.
● There are growing concerns of long-term care quality and its sustainability in terms of rising costs and large focus on direct treatment of disabilities.
Medium Gap between HALE and Life Expectancy
Final Longevity Progressiveness Ranking: #18
Final Longevity Progressiveness Score: 0.673
Practical Recommendation Summary: Smoking, drinking and obesity are main behavioral factors of bad health which should be addressed. Large inequalities in health persist according to education and income. On the positive side, public health policies are starting to tackle this, but may need time to become effective.
Practical Recommendations (Full):
● Bridge the gap between health professionals and data scientist by utilising AI for Healthy Longevity. AI offers a range of effective and innovative solutions to medical problems, revolutionizing medical domain. Machine learning makes diagnosing more efficient. It processes information with less time and provide generated data with the right context.
● Reduce socioeconomic inequalities in health at individual and population level. Behavioural risk factors tend to be more common among people at a disadvantage because of a lesser education or lower income.
● Address rising burden of non-communicable disease. Lifestyle risk behaviours are responsible for a large proportion of disease burden and premature mortality worldwide. Risk behaviours tend to cluster in populations. Non-communicable disease are caused by the set of emerging risk factors (sleep, sitting time, and social participation) and unique risk combinations and their associations with all-cause and cardio-metabolic mortality.
● Utilize AI for financial wellness. Ageing of the population is a rising issue for healthcare and pension systems stability in Netherlands. The utilization of novel forms of financial data to enable AI-empowered AgeTech and WealthTech services may help to maintain complemeted balance between advances in “wealthspan” and “healthspan”.
● Enable patient-centered care with information technology systems. Embracement of technology in health care will lead to personalization and improvement of the quality of medical care through close coordination between patients, caregivers, and professionals.
● Accelerate the paradigm shift from disease treatment and sick care to preventive medicine, and from preventive medicine to precision health.
SWOT Analysis
Strengths:
● There was a considerable decrease in the mortality rate from cardiovascular diseases for the past years.
● People enjoy good access to a dense network of effective primary and secondary care providers and generous long-term care.
● Amenable mortality in the Netherlands is very low, indicating (together with other relevant indicators) that the health care system is effective.
● Access to healthcare is good as number of unmet needs is low
Weaknesses:
● General practitioners may not be supported sufficiently to identify mental disorders and treat patients with less severe mental health problems.
● Health system is one of the most expensive in the EU.
● More than a quarter of overall diseases burden is linked to is linked to behavioural risk factors – including smoking, poor diet, low physical activity, and alcohol use.
● Health inequality persist according to income status and education.
● There is the disagreement on proper role of market mechanisms in regulation of the healthcare system.
Opportunities:
● There is little room to improve cancer care to boost the survival.
● Comprehensive government-led policies policy addressing mental health promotion and prevention.
● Implement policies to ease the costs of population ageing.
● Generating of additional funds to finance advanced technologies and approaches in health.
● Increase the availability of intermediate care, to improve hospital transitions.
Threats:
● High healthcare spending in Netherlands generates additional pressure on the budget.
● Obesity rates are on the rise as there were only 11% of obese adults in 2011 compared to 13% of obese adults in 2015 with the increase by 20%.
● Illicit stimulants are commonly used without now sign of stabilisation.
● 1 in 6 people in Netherlands live with hypertension, 1 in 18 with asthma and 1 in 12 with chronic depression.
● Ageing of the population is a rising issue for healthcare and pension systems stability
SWOT Conclusions
Strengths Analysis:
● Over 80% of overall healthcare spending are publicly funded and health spending per capita is also higher than the EU average.
● Amenable mortality in Netherlands is very low that is the evidence for the effectiveness of the medical system in treating life-threatening conditions.
● Primary care is strong. Diversified public healthcare services portfolio include services such as health promotion, screening and vaccination, and youth health care.
● The number of acute beds and outpatient clinics continue to grow steadily.
● Healthcare system is characterized with good geographical accessibility, developed both eHealth and physical infrastructure.
Weaknesses Analysis:
● There is a decline in healthy years of life for the additional time that older people have to live: only 57% of additionally expected years to have than can spend without disability for men and 45% for women.
● There is a significant incidents of deaths for elders from cancer and CDVs that could be avoided through the improvements of treatments and preventive care.
● There are certain disparities for the people from different income groups and with different level of education. Only 2% of representatives from low income group report to have poor health while 10% of low income quintile report to have weak health.
● 26% of burden of diseases are linked to the behaviour risk factors such as smoking, bad diet, low physical activity and drinking.
● The shortage of nurses is emerging that becomes a great concern for the healthcare system in Netherlands.
● There are growing concerns of long-term care quality and its sustainability in terms of rising costs and large focus on direct treatment of disabilities.