1975-2001: Dutch History Photo Commissions > Health Care in the Netherlands
Exhibition: 1994
In 1994, the Netherlands numbered more than half a million health care workers such as nurses, doctors, home helps and therapists. Almost everybody requires health care at some point: three quarters to eighty-five percent of the Dutch population went to see a General Practitioner or dentist one or more times a year. Seven percent were hospitalised and in 1994, fifteen percent went to a physiotherapist. Care of the elderly, mental health care, homecare, care for the disabled, and maternity care complete the picture. Total costs were already amounting to more than fifty billion guilders a year.
Photographers Harrie Timmermans and Roel Visser portrayed health care workers 'in the frontline', but also the people working in the background such as volunteers or neighbours.
