The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) and the Trimbos Institute are calling on the next government to invest broadly in mental health, focusing on prevention, identifying problems at an early stage, and applying an approach that addresses mental health across all policy areas. 

Since the end of the previous century, the government has ramped up the number of measures to reduce emissions of air pollutants. RIVM research has shown that the number of people who died after multiple days with elevated concentrations in the air of these pollutants dropped by around 25% between 1995 and 2019.