Exposure to environmental noise is expected to cause more health problems in the Netherlands. There is increasingly more noise, and new houses are being built closer to noise sources.

As of this autumn, RIVM will advise against burning wood in unfavourable weather conditions and or poor air quality.

A total of 673 different types of additives are used by manufacturers in their tobacco products (cigarettes, cigars and pipe tobacco) and the number of additives used per tobacco product type incre

Growing tobacco plants acquire metals from soil, fertilisers, and industrial pollution. Smoking liberates some of these metals from tobacco into smoke to be inhaled by the smoker and bystanders.

In 2014, 53% of people between the ages of 12 and 80 in the Netherlands participate in some type of sport weekly.

Every four years, RIVM assesses the quality, accessibility and affordability of the Dutch healthcare system.

The Dutch Inspection for Health Care (IGZ) revoked the decision not to use two types of Terumo brand syringes based on research of Terumo needles and needles of other brands.

The World Health Organization (WHO) Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) has just published a Report of the WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation (TobReg).

RIVM performed a systematic literature review of epidemiological studies on the health effects of breastfeeding.

At the start of the “Tick Awareness Week”, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) and Wageningen UR are commencing a large-scale study on the long-term effects of