Sport Sport promotes health, provides social contacts and contributes to self-development | Welfare The Netherlands too has groups of residents that profit less from our welfare state |
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Volunteer work and youth care are important parts of the social policy | The Netherlands healthy and well |
The ministry also seeks to support people with a physical or mental limitation and promote social participation.
15The ambition of the Ministry of VWS is to keep everyone healthy as long as possible and to restore the sick to health as quickly as possible | They are insured for this care and therefore have a right to health care |
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Public health The Ministry of VWS encourages people to adopt healthy life styles: to exercise more, to refrain from smoking, to use alcohol moderately, to practise safe sex and to eat healthily | The 'sports mission' of the Ministry of VWS is to make it possible for everyone to play sports |
People who have problems with their health should be able to call on their general practitioner, the hospital or other forms of health care on time.
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