The number of children with pneumonia continues to rise. In week 46 (13-19 November) there were 103 per 100,000 children aged 5-14 years with pneumonia, compared to 83 per 100,000 children the week before. And the increase also continues unabated among 0 to 4-year-olds, from 124 (6-12 Nov) to 143 per 100,000 (13-19 Nov).
Every Wednesday afternoon, Nivel reports the current figures for diseases per week. Explaining the reported figures requires further research, which we do not offer on a weekly basis.
Nivel figures for pneumonia week 46 (13-16 Nov) 2023: what stands out?
Since week 31 (early August), more patients with pneumonia have been visiting their GP than in previous years. We also look at years before the corona pandemic. There are a striking number of children and young people with pneumonia. In week 46, the number of children aged 5 to 14 years with pneumonia increased to 103 per 100,000 children. At its peak last year, there were 58 per 100,000 children. General practitioners also see more pneumonia in the group of young people between 15 and 24 years old than in previous years. In week 46 this number does not increase further but decreases slightly. In young children (0-4 years), the number of pneumonias has been increasing since week 38 (18-24 September), but the figures are lower than in 2019, before the corona pandemic. Relatively speaking, pneumonia is most common in older adults, as in previous years. However, in week 46 we see a slight decrease in the number of people aged 65 or older with pneumonia.
Figures for pneumonia patients 0-4 years week 46 (13-19 Nov) 2023
More current weekly figures for pneumonia and other diseases in pictures
All weekly pneumonia figures (all age groups, pneumonia throughout the years):
open the Nivel Surveillance Bulletin wk 46 at section 2.7 Pneumonia. What is currently prevailing in the Netherlands? Pneumonia, whooping cough, flu, scabies, something else:
go to Current disease figures per week for the online summary with the most striking findings, or: An up-to-date overview of all identified conditions:
open the Nivel Surveillance Bulletin wk 46, go to a disease via the table of contents (in the front, after the summary). Get everything you need to know about flu (flu figures, flu season, flu epidemic, FAQs and more):
go to Flu Central. Results of Nivel research with (among others) Nivel figures on diseases:
go to Publications – using figures from Nivel Primary Care Registers.
Nivel method determining disease figures per week (surveillance)
Nivel uses the Surveillance method to determine the weekly figures on health problems. The data from Nivel Healthcare Registrations First Line is used for this, including the additional data from the Nivel Sentinel Stations.
2023-11-23 09:17:17
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