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Prenatal and lactational exposure to Dutch "background" dioxin levels may cause health effects spanning many years.
His father, Jack, came from an aristocratic Dutch background; he had been severely injured during the first world war and worked very little as a result.
Towards the end of her life she lived with another actor, Robert Wolders, who shared her Dutch background, and threw herself into a new career as a roving ambassador for the UN children's agency, Unicef.
Although they are very much aware of it, and know or assume that children of middle class native Dutch background can appeal to their parents for help in such matters, they do not express feelings of resentment.
Recently, CBS, in close consultation with the WRR (Bovens, Bokhorst, Jennissen, & Engbersen, 2016), decided also to refrain from these terms and use the expressions 'with a [country/immigrant] background' , e.g. people with a Turkish background, a Surinamese background, a Somalian background, and also 'Dutch background' , indicating the 'autochtoon' in their reports (Ooijevaar & Bloemendal, 2016).
More than half of the children had a Dutch background (57%).
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In 2017, 67.3% of the inhabitants of Spoorwijk were of non-Dutch background – the majority from Surinam, but also from Turkey and Morocco.
In Amsterdam, 11%% of students go to a school where the majority of pupils come from a non-Dutch background and in the old-west neighbourhoods, where most respondents resided, this percentage rises to 37%% (Booi et al., 2009).
Particularly, male participants with a non-Dutch background seem to be under-represented.
In both groups there was one client with parents from a non-Dutch background.
We described cultural competence in this single item as: 'the knowledge, attitudes and skills required to provide adequate healthcare to patients of non-Dutch background'.
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