The Northern Netherlands has leading institutions in the field of health care. The University Medical Center Groningen is the region's largest employer,...
In the year 1614, the Provincial University of Applied Sciences, later the National University, was founded in Groningen. Medicine forms a faculty from the beginning...
In 1794, Geert Reinders of Bedum, Groningen, founded the Society of Mutual Assistance in Cases of Fire (SOBB). This...
In 1795, French soldiers begin caring for their wounded at the Green Orphanage in Groningen. With as many as eighty wounded in the...
In 1798, Willem Brocades opened his pharmacy on Wildemansteeg in Meppel. Brocades not only sold medicines, but also produced them...
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the northern Netherlands was a hotbed of infectious diseases such as the plague, malaria, cholera, smallpox, tuberculosis,...
Presumably inspired by the Groninger Geert Reinders, Ulbe Piers Draisma, a Frisian farmer's son with a talent for bookkeeping, also founded...
In 1878, Sappemeer-born Aletta Jacobs took her doctor's degree from the University of Groningen. Jacobs is not just any...
On Feb. 3, 1899, Groninger skipper Geert Adriaans Boomgaard died at the respectable age of 110 years and 10 months....
In 1903, the General Provincial City and Academic Hospital (APSAZ) opened a new hospital on Oostersingel in Groningen. The site...
In 1971, the European headquarters of Cordis, an American manufacturer of medical products, settled in Roden. The choice of Roden...
In 1971, the Provincial-City-Academic Hospital Groningen underwent an organizational and name change. Continuing, the organization goes through life....
It begins in Assen, where pharmacist Jan Jonkman does laboratory research for pharmaceutical companies. In 1984, Jonkman founded the independent research institute Pharma...
At the end of the twentieth century, a series of mergers occurs in the insurance industry. Northern insurers also enter...
In 2005, the Medical Faculty of the University of Groningen merged with the Academic Hospital Groningen (AZG). Together they form the University...
In 2006, a large-scale population study will be launched under the direction of the UMCG. This study, under the name Lifelines, aims to...
In 2009, the Healthy Ageing Network Northern Netherlands (HANNN) was founded, working to ensure more healthy years for residents...
In 2013, the UMCG will start the European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing (ERIBA). This is a research institute where...
In 2017, the Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health will be founded by several northern Dutch knowledge institutions. Currently, the collective consists of...
Living Lab M&Health is a project of the municipality of Emmen, NHL Stenden college, Drenthe college and Hanzehogeschool, among others....
The three Northern provinces are each working on healthy living in their own way. All three support collaboration through the...
Northern Netherlands has shown how institutions with a rich history of curative care can also contribute to preventive...
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