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  1. For fat and thin. Prevention of overweight and obesity and the risk of eating disorders

    The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport has started a large number of initiatives to prevent overweight and obesity, which are ...

    Advisory report | 24-08-2010

  2. Fitness to drive with epilepsy

    Advisory report | 22-07-2010

  3. Aluminium and aluminium compounds - Health-based recommended occupational exposure limit

    At request of the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, the Health Council of the Netherlands recommends health-based ...

    Advisory report | 15-07-2010

  4. Endotoxins - Health-based recommended occupational exposure limit

    At the request of the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, the Dutch Expert Committee on Occupational Safety (DECOS), a ...

    Advisory report | 15-07-2010

  5. Comparison of recommended exposure limits for hydrogen sulphide

    In 2006 DECOS assessed the consequences of occupational exposure to hydrogen sulphide and recommended a health-based occupational ...

    Advisory report | 15-07-2010

  6. Invitational Conference 'Is health a state or an ability? Towards a dynamic concept of health'

    The past years thinking about the concept of health has moved with varying degrees of criticism around the old WHO definition: a ...

    Advisory report | 13-07-2010

  7. Human vaccination against Q fever

    Q fever is a zoonotic disease (i.e. a disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans) caused by the Coxiella burnetii ...

    Advisory report | 01-07-2010

  8. Vitamin K supplementation in infants

    Since 1990, all full-term infants in the Netherlands receive 1 milligram of vitamin K orally after birth in order to prevent ...

    Advisory report | 29-06-2010

  9. Long-term effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields. Assessment of the study of D. Adang

    In 2008 a thesis from Belgium received quite some publicity, since it would show that long term exposure to radiation from GSM or ...

    Advisory report | 09-06-2010

  10. Asbestos: Risks of environmental and occupational exposure

    In the report, a Committee of the Health Council of the Netherlands puts forward new values for chrysotile and amphibole ...

    Advisory report | 03-06-2010