The heterogeneous impact of stricter criteria for disability insurance.

The Netherlands reformed its disability insurance (DI) scheme in 2006. Eligibility for DI became stricter, reintegration incentives became stronger, and DI benefits often became less generous. Based on administrative data on all individuals who reported sick shortly before and after the reform, difference-in-differences regressions show that the reform reduced DI receipt by 5.

The elimination of selected chronic diseases in a population: the compression and expansion of morbidity.

Objectives: This study evaluates the effect of eliminating a specific disease on the mortality, long-term disability, and overall health status of a population. Primarily, it examines whether elimination leads to a compression of morbidity.

Methods: The Sullivan method was used to calculate disability-free life expectancy.

Results of two methods to determine health expectancy in The Netherlands in 1981-1985.

Health expectancy is a measure providing summarizing information on mortality on one hand and morbidity and/or disability on the other hand. In this article health expectancy is determined with two approaches: method 1 leads to life expectancy free of disability at birth and at other ages; method 2 leads to life expectancy in good health. Results of the various calculations show that according to method 1 life expectancy free of disability at birth for men in the Netherlands was 58.

Associations of moderate and severe overweight with self-reported illness and medical care in Dutch adults.

Data on height, weight, illness, medical care consumption, and demographic variables for 19,126 Dutch adults aged 20 years or older were obtained from three annual Health Interview Surveys. Data on severely overweight (Body Mass Index 30.0-40.

[Applications of the OECD disability questions in the Netherlands (author's transl)].

In the Netherlands a research survey consisting of two main versions (self-administered and interview) was carried out in March'79, covering among other subjects the complete set of OECD items. A short description of the purposes, the survey design, the sampling method and the fieldwork is given in the paper. The sampling method and sample size only permit rather restricted comparisons between both versions and proxy and non-proxy respondents.