COPD Package Scan
In 2007 there were almost 324,000 people with COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) in the Netherlands. The quality of life of people with COPD is
reduced in various ways. Furthermore, the life-span of COPD-patients is on average almost seven years shorter than that of healthy people. As a result COPD takes seventh place in the list of illnesses with the highest social burden of disease in the Netherlands. The social burden of disease is defined as: the number of healthy lifeyears lost due to disease in the population.