Creating guidelines for disaster planning

2002 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-30
Author(s):  
Anita Vriend
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Disaster Planning ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Library Collections

Because art institutions in The Netherlands all too often do not include library collections in their emergency response programs, ARLIS/NL decided to prepare guidelines for disaster planning in art libraries. These guidelines, now on the website of ARLIS/NL, serve as a tool in the process of disaster planning and can be customised to the individual situation of each library. This article describes the setting up of the project and its results.

Population Densities Allowed Around Dutch SEVESO Establishments

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. M. H. Laheij ◽  
B. J. M. Ale ◽  
J. G. Post
Keyword(s):  
Population Density ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Individual Risk ◽  
Population Densities ◽  
Planning Policy ◽  
Relative Contribution ◽  
Societal Risk ◽  
Dangerous Substances ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Uniform Population

Abstract In the Netherlands, the individual risk and societal risk are used in efforts to reduce the number of people exposed to the effect of an accident at an establishment with dangerous substances. To facilitate the societal risk planning policy an investigation was carried out for the Dutch SEVESO establishments to investigate the possibility of determining a generic uniform population density for the zone between the individual risk contours of 10−5 and 10−6 per year. The indicative limit for the societal risk at this density was not to be exceeded. Also there was to be enough space left for a significantly higher population density outside the individual risk contour of 10−6 per year. The RORISC methodology and the actual data for the 124 Dutch SEVESO establishments were used to determine the generic uniform population density. Based on the data available it can be concluded that the maximum allowed uniform population density in the zone between the individual risk contours of 10−5 and 10−6 per year is lower than one person per hectare. At this density there is no space left for a higher population density outside the individual risk contour of 10−6 per year. For uniform population densities the relative contribution to the societal risk has been found significant up to the individual risk contour of 10−7 per year.

scholarly journals Reserves in Sanatorium Insurance

1965 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. P. Welten
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Sickness Insurance ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Risk Of Treatment

The object of the Netherlands Foundation for Sanatorium Insurance (“N.S.V.”) is to insure the risk of treatment in a sanatorium because of tuberculosis. For insured persons admitted to a sanatorium because of tuberculosis, the N.S.V. pays the insured sum for every day of treatment. At the moment nearly 80% of the population of the Netherlands is insured directly or indirectly in the N.S.V.There are three groups of insurances: obligatory insurance, voluntary collective insurances and voluntary individual insurances. The insurances in the first and second group are, strictly speaking, reinsurances of the risk of tuberculosis of a great number of institutions concerned with cost of sickness insurance. The risk of the insurance in these two groups is only administered and pooled by the N.S.V.This paper concerns the group of the individual insurances only, which group contains about 1.250.000 insured persons. The risk of this group is run by the N.S.V. itself. As the N.S.V. is a non-profit organisation, the premium level is held as low as possible.From statistical data, derived from the administration of the N.S.V., the “admission frequency” is calculated every year, being the quotient of the number of insured persons, admitted to a sanatorium in that year, and the total number of insured persons. This admission frequency a, which is now about is used as a basis for the calculation of the premium which will be in force during the next year.

scholarly journals Bearing the Weight of Imprisonment: The Relationship Between Prison Climate and Well-Being

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. 1385-1404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther F. J. C. van Ginneken ◽  
Hanneke Palmen ◽  
Anouk Q. Bosma ◽  
Miranda Sentse
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Multilevel Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Unit Level ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Individual Perceptions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

Little is known about the relative influence of shared and individual perceptions of prison climate on adjustment to incarceration. This study investigated the relationship between prison climate and well-being among a sample of 4,538 adults incarcerated in the Netherlands. Prison climate dimensions were considered both as prison unit-level variables and as individual-level perceptions. Multilevel analysis results showed that most variance for well-being is found at the individual rather than the unit level. This implies that it does not make much of a difference for well-being in which prison unit someone resides. Positive effects of prison climate on well-being were primarily found for individual perceptions of prison climate, rather than for the aggregate unit measures. More research is needed to determine whether this finding holds true in other countries. The findings confirm the importance of disentangling the contribution of prison climate at the individual and group level.

Pediatric cardiology in the Netherlands

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
John Hess
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
General Health ◽  
Pediatric Cardiology ◽  
Health Care Organization ◽  
Private Insurance ◽  
Hospital Costs ◽  
Care Organization ◽  
Sick Fund ◽  
The Individual

BEFORE GOING INTO THE SPECIFIC AREAS OF PEDIATRIC cardiology and pediatric cardiac cardiology and pediatric cardiac surgery, an overview of the general health care organization in the Netherlands might be helpful. The Netherlands, a country with about 15 million inhabitants, spent 47 billion Dutch guilders (US$22 billion) for general health care in 1991. This is about 8.5% of the gross domestic product. Of this, 61% was spent on in-hospital costs, 39% on extramural costs, including the financing of organizations that deal with preventive (primary) medicine, such as clinics for infants and school children which were visited regularly. Almost all inhabitants, 99.6%, are covered for the expenses of health care, 60% through the “Sick Fund,” a state-insurance that is obliged for everyone with a yearly income of less than US$30,000. Employers of these people have to deduct an amount of money from the monthly salary to be paid to the “Sick Fund.” In case of unemployment this money is deducted from the amount paid by the social security office. The remaining 40% has some form of private insurance, that covers health care. Both diagnostic and therapeutic approaches as the timing of these are completely similar and independent from the type of insurance that applies for the individual patient.

Hepatitis B prevalence in the Turkish population of Arnhem: implications for national screening policy?

2011 ◽  
Vol 140 (4) ◽  
pp. 724-730 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. RICHTER ◽  
G. TER BEEST ◽  
I. SANCAK ◽  
R. AYDINLY ◽  
K. BULBUL ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Hepatitis B ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Hepatitis B Surface Antigen ◽  
Turkish Population ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Core Antigen ◽  
Hospital Records ◽  
Screening Policy ◽  
The Individual

SUMMARYDespite the increased prevalence of hepatitis B and C in most migrant groups in The Netherlands, a national screening policy for these infections is not available. In order to estimate the prevalence of hepatitis B and C in the largest group of first-generation migrants (FGM) in The Netherlands, we conducted a screening project in the Turkish community of Arnhem. In a separate project we identified patients from the target population with chronic hepatitis B and C from hospital records (1990–2008). Educational meetings concerning hepatitis were organized, with all participants being offered a blood screening test. Participants were tested for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), antibodies to hepatitis B core antigen (anti-HBc) and antibodies to hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV). In total 709 persons were tested, a complete dataset was available for 647 patients. We found that 3·0% and 0·4% of Turkish FGM aged >24 years in Arnhem had active hepatitis B, defined as HBsAg positive, and tested positive for anti-HCV, respectively. The hospital records revealed another 32 patients, 28 with hepatitis B and four with hepatitis C representing 0·7% for hepatitis B and 0·1% for hepatitis C in relation to the total number of Turkish FGM in Arnhem. We believe that active hepatitis screening of FGM from Turkey should be part of the national health policy as it will benefit the individual and public health.

The Implementation of the Directive on the Application of Patients’ Rights in Cross-border Healthcare in the Netherlands

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.M.H. Bongers ◽  
D.M.R. Townend *
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Member State ◽  
Contact Point ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
National Legislation ◽  
Patients Rights ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Dutch Health ◽  
The Individual

Abstract This article discusses the significance of the Directive 2011/24/eu on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare for the protection of individual patients’ rights in the Netherlands by describing how its provisions are implemented in Dutch health law. The responsible Dutch authorities take the view that most of the Directive’s provisions and requirements are covered in existing Dutch law. Implementation of the Directive would only require adaptations to national legislation with regard to the establishment of a national contact point for cross-border healthcare and the recognition of medical prescriptions issued in another Member State. This article looks into the question of how far the Dutch law meets the requirements of the Directive in relation to the individual patients’ rights addressed in this special issue of the European Journal of Health Law.

scholarly journals Life Writing in the Netherlands

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. R19-R26
Author(s):  
Marijke Huisman
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Perspective

Review of Hans Renders & Binne de Haan ed., Theoretical discussions of biography. Approaches from history, microhistory and life writing (Edwin Mellen Press; Lewiston 2013) and Binne de Haan, Van kroon tot bastaard. Biografie en het individuele perspectief in de geschiedschrijving [From prince to pauper. Biography and the individual perspective in historiography] (Groningen University Press; Groningen 2015) This article was submitted to the European Journal of Life Writing on 20 August 2015 and published on 22 November 2015.

scholarly journals Ombudsman decentralized in the EU: experience for Ukraine

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 42-50
Author(s):  
К. В. Мануілова
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Public Power ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Growth Status ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Further Development ◽  
The Eu

The article analyses the actual theme of the ombudsman institution in terms of decen­tralization of public power. The features of formation and functioning of the ombudsman in Sweden, Finland, of Denmark, Austria and the Netherlands. It is noted that it is the best ombudsman protects the rights of people in decentralized EU. Ombudsman makes a significant contribution to the democratization of society, public power closer to the peo­ple, ensuring fairness, legitimacy and willingness to meet the needs of citizens and con­tributes to greater transparency, efficiency and quality in the work of public authorities. Today, most decentralized European countries the post of local / regional ombudsman, which successfully handles control of public authorities. The conclusions emphasized that the activities of the institute of local / regional ombudsman investigated in the EU was an important step for the further development of democratic society; strengthening the rule of law key components (growth status of the individual, guaranteeing the rights and freedoms of man and citizen); providing better control over the activities of authori­ties and officials; realization of the main goal of the policy of decentralization of public power – the power to approach people. The recommendations for change Ukrainian om­budsman as a decentralized public power.

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