Mandatory excess is not the real problem in healthcare
According to health law professor Martin Buijsen, discussing mandatory excess does not help.
Youth well-being goes beyond mental health
There's a lot about the mental health of young people. Kayla Green prefers to look at wellbeing.
Future! A diet tailored to your body
Saliva sampling, peeing in a tube and blood sampling to get a shopping list.
What else is going on?
Already in the cradle at a disadvantage
Your chance of buying a house, your chance of having a good income and your chance of getting a particular job is already largely fixed at birth.
As it turns out, the place where you were born plays a big role in this.
Difference of thousands of euros
Two young families have the same income. One family lives in Blijdorp. Another family in Oud-Crooswijk. The children of the family from Blijdorp turn out years later as thirty-somethings to earn on average thousands of euros more per year.
Inequality quickly apparent after birth
Data show that babies born to lower-income families have a higher BMI than their wealthier peers as early as four months.
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