Documents

Local environmental health concerns: risk communication, exposure assessment and cluster investigation

Concerned citizens are increasingly contacting local authorities to ask whether seemingly unusually large numbers of similar ...

Advisory report | 03-04-2001

Manganese and its compounds; Evaluation of the effects on reproduction, recommendations for classific

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

Advisory report | 30-03-2001

Sports Health

It was decided that sports health should be interpreted as including all health issues relating to sporting activities or ...

Advisory report | 27-03-2001

Nuclear transplantation in cases of mutations in mitochondrial DNA

Mitochondria are intracellular organelles that are essential for the supply of energy to the cells. Located in the mitochondria ...

Advisory report | 20-03-2001

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