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News Netherlands » Health: The Dutch Health Sytem: A Performance Report

News channel or source: https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/dutch-health-sytem-performance-report

Published on: Tuesday 05 August 2008

Editor's Note: Health Affairs has published several articles that shed light on the Dutch health system, including Universal Mandatory Health Insurance In The Netherlands: A Model For The United ...

News Netherlands » Health: Dutch health insurance to cover gastric reduction surgery for some teens with obesity

News channel or source: https://nltimes.nl/2026/06/04/dutch-health-insurance-cover-gastric-reduction-surgery-teens-obesity

Published on: Wednesday 03 June 2026

Basic health insurance in the Netherlands will reimburse gastric reduction surgery for teenagers aged 13 and older with severe obesity, subject to strict conditions. The Healthcare Institute expects ...

News Netherlands » Health: Health Insurance Exchanges In Switzerland And The Netherlands Offer Five Key Lessons For The Operations Of US Exchanges

News channel or source: https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2012.0948

Published on: Sunday 04 December 2022

Since the 1990s some European countries have had regulated health insurance exchanges or have incorporated elements of exchange markets into their health systems. Health reforms in Switzerland and the ...

News Netherlands » Health: Going Dutch: The Netherlands is taking to the digital health stage at #HIMSS21Europe

News channel or source: https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/emea/going-dutch-netherlands-taking-digital-health-stage-himss21europe

Published on: Tuesday 25 May 2021

The Netherlands has positioned itself as a rising digital health star in Europe over the last few years. Research by HIMSS found that alongside the Nordic countries, the Netherlands is viewed as a ...

News Netherlands » Health: Childhood pneumonia surge reported in Netherlands amid outbreak in China

News channel or source: https://www.foxnews.com/health/childhood-pneumonia-surge-reported-netherlands-outbreak-china

Published on: Tuesday 28 November 2023

Childhood pneumonia cases are surging in the Netherlands, a health agency in the country has reported. During the week of Nov. 13-19, there were 103 pneumonia cases in the Netherlands out of every 100 ...

News Netherlands » Health: In Netherlands, Insurers Compete Over Quality of Care

News channel or source: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/in-netherlands-insurers-compete-over-quality-of-care

Published on: Monday 05 October 2009

In the first of a series on health care abroad, Ray Suarez looks at how the Netherlands achieved a massive health care overhaul four years ago. Next tonight, our global health unit begins a series of ...

News Netherlands » Health: Netherlands – Mental Health

News channel or source: https://case.edu/socialwork/academics/study-abroad/netherlands-mental-health

Published on: Monday 09 March 2026

Explore Amsterdam while discovering the similarities and differences between how Americans and the Dutch view mental health and substance use disorders and, more importantly, how we treat the people ...

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