Documents

The effect of Context in Healthcare; A Programming Study

Healthcare in the 20th century is characterised, inter alia, by rapid developments in the therapeutic field. Despite the growth ...

Advisory report | 15-03-2001

Population Screening Act: Hereditary prostate cancer

Advisory report | 09-03-2001

Programmatic vaccination of adults

This report looks at the desirability of a programme for the immunization of adults who, on account of their age, fall outside ...

Advisory report | 08-03-2001

The efficiency of long-term psychotherapy

Long-term psychotherapy has been evaluated by a Health Council Committee as part of the analysis of the cost-effectiveness of ...

Advisory report | 28-02-2001

AIDS treatment centres

In the present advice to the Minister of Public Health, Welfare and Sports the Health Council reviews a policy paper on AIDS ...

Advisory report | 22-02-2001

Universal vaccination against hepatitis B

In this advisory report a Health Council Committee discusses the question of whether universal vaccination against hepatitis B ...

Advisory report | 20-02-2001

Disinfectants in consumer products

Over the last few years an increasing number of consumer products containing disinfectant substances, such as triclosan, ...

Advisory report | 16-02-2001

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and blood transfusion

A prion disease that has long been known to occur in humans is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), which has a virtually stable ...

Advisory report | 01-02-2001

Chromium VI and its compounds; Evaluation of the effects on reproduction, recommendation for classification

On request of the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, the Health Council of the Netherlands evaluates the effects on the ...

Advisory report | 25-01-2001

Population screening for colorectal cancer

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related mortality in the Netherlands, resulting in approximately ...

Advisory report | 19-01-2001