Healthcare expenditures comparable internationally; functions, financing,2005-2016

This table shows the expenditure on health care used by residents of the Netherlands in one year. Healthcare is defined according to the international definition of the System of Health Accounts. The figures are comparable internationally with Eurostat, OECD and WHO publications. All healthcare activities count, regardless of whether they take place inside or outside the healthcare sector. The figures are derived from the Care Accounts, which includes more activities, such as youth care, welfare work, social services and childcare. The Health Care Accounts also include exports (expenditure for and by non-residents) included in the table as foreign financing. The table also shows how from the total figure on health expenditure according to the Healthcare Accounts to the international total figure: Total health expenditure according to the Health Care Accounts —/- health related expenditure, such as household care within the care of the elderly —/- expenditure on other care and well-being, such as childcare —/- export = Total expenditure on health care (total current expenditure on health) Data available from 2005 to 2016 Status of the figures: The figures for 2016 and 2015 are further provisional. As this table has been discontinued, these figures are no longer definitive. Figures from the other years are final. Changes as of 31 May 2018: This table has been discontinued. When are new figures coming? No longer applicable. Due to a revision of the healthcare accounts, this table was followed up by a new table entitled “Care expenditure internationally comparable, functions and financing” (see paragraph 3).