Cost of Illness in the Netherlands According to the System of Health Accounts of the OECD, the Netherlands spent 47.7 billion euro on health care in 2005 , which is equivalent to 9.4% of the Gross National Product or on average 2,900 euro per inhabitant. According to Dutch national estimates the amount spent on healthcare was much higher: about 68.5 billion euro. The study 'Cost of Illness in the Netherlands 2005' explains among other things why national and international estimates differ so much for the Netherlands. The main goal of our study is to determine the demands on health care resources caused by disease, age and gender and to demonstrate the importance of the perspective on health expenditure (national versus international). We report our results in six dimensions: health care provider, health care function, source of finance, age, gender and disease. On this moment one report of the study is published in English: The other reports are published in Dutch. However we do provide an English summary in our Dutch reports, which can be downloaded:
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| It also possible to query and download our data in full detail. The perspective used on this interactive site is the System of Health Accounts of the OECD. For more information on querying: How to create a table or graph? : More information about the methodology used in the Dutch cost of illness study can be found in our draftt guidelines for conducting a COI study. These are based on our 2003 COI study and have been commisioned by the OECD: A product of the center for Public Health Forecasting of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in collaboration with.:  
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