Ailments that start small, but get worse because we keep walking around with them for too long:three quarters of the Dutch have experience with this. Research by Prescan and Multiscope among more than 1000 Dutch people shows that 76.6 percent has had something among the members that got worse because they postponed a visit to the doctor for too long. Women (81.3%) are more likely to postpone this for too long than men (71.9%). It also appears that four in five (82.4%) do not immediately visit their GP in the event of complaints. The majority (56.6%) sees themselves as posers, of which women (61.1%) more than men (52%).
Women consider themselves least healthy
The Dutch rate their own health as high:only a quarter (26.1%) consider themselves unhealthy. Women (69%) generally consider themselves less healthy than men (78.8%). They also (75%) more often indicate that they experience physical effects of mental stress with men (61%). Although the Dutch consider themselves healthy, three quarters (77.1%) sometimes worry about their well-being.
Four out of five play home doctor and google complaints
To tame these concerns, we regularly search for an explanation online:four in five (80.3%) Dutch people google symptoms to find out what is wrong with them. However, we do not always take this online diagnosis seriously:only 1 in 3 (33.2%) believe the online medical advice they find.
Almost half do not use preventive medical checkups
Prevention is always better than cure. In addition to eating healthy, sleeping and exercising to stay healthy, slightly more than half of the Dutch population makes use of the available preventive medical checks (52.3%) such as population screenings, smears and checking cholesterol. Men (35.3%) make considerably less use of this than women (69.8%). The biggest reason for not participating is the lack of complaints, followed by feeling uncomfortable and having no time for it.
