As of yesterday RIVM participates in the Vaccination Alliance initiated by the Dutch State Secretary, Paul Blokhuis, Other members of this Alliance include  paediatricians and nurses, general pract

22 March UN World Water Day is all about attention on the importance of water.

To improve integrated care for older people, professionals and organisations need to get to know each other, build trust and better understanding.

In 2018, 22.4 per cent of the Dutch adult population indicated they were occasional smokers.

The key figures of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) show that in 2018 there were 806 TB patients in the Netherlands. This is 3 percent more than in 2017 (784).

Would you like to collaborate in an international laboratory network of hepatitis E virus (HEV) experts performing supranational studies and are you able to share HEV sequences in a shared reposito

This spring, about 860,000 young people in the Netherlands will receive an invitation for a vaccination against meningococcal disease.

Young people (13-18 years) who use light-emitting screens daily in the hour before going to sleep have more sleep problems.

The ambitions of the National Prevention Agreement for smoking in adults can probably be realised through the proposed measures. This, however, does not apply to young people and pregnant women.

Recent years show a cautious improvement in the Dutch diet. The Dutch have started to eat more fruit and it seems to be heading in the right direction with vegetables.