Depression Package Scan
In 2009 there were 555,000 people suffering from depression in the Netherlands. The degree to which people with a depression function socially is often severely limited. Furthermore, depression doubles the chance of premature death. As a result depression takes fourth place in the list of illnesses with the highest social burden of disease in the Netherlands. Social burden of disease is defined as: the number of healthy life-years lost due to disease in the population.