Table 9.
Proportion of health care costs within the total production costs (%) and proportion of loss (L) and expenditures (E) expressed as a percentage in total production costs
| Production system |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disease | Conventional | Volwaard | Better Life 1*/Puur & Eerlijk | Better Life 2* | Better Life 3*/Skal | Organic |
| Gastrointestinal | ||||||
| Coccidiosis1 | 1.22 | 1.68 | 1.65 | 1.46 | 3.88 | 4.20 |
| L | 0.89 | 1.42 | 1.41 | 1.20 | 3.88 | 4.20 |
| E | 0.33 | 0.26 | 0.24 | 0.26 | — | — |
| Escherichia coli1 | 6.42 | 2.81 | 2.72 | 3.18 | 3.42 | 4.19 |
| L | 5.22 | 1.81 | 1.77 | 2.18 | 2.99 | 3.70 |
| E | 1.21 | 1.00 | 0.96 | 1.00 | 0.43 | 0.49 |
| NE1 | 3.28 | 3.24 | 3.12 | 3.08 | 2.36 | 2.55 |
| L | 2.04 | 2.24 | 2.17 | 2.08 | 1.93 | 2.05 |
| E | 1.25 | 0.99 | 0.95 | 1.00 | 0.43 | 0.50 |
| Locomotion | ||||||
| Leg problems1 | 1.18 | 0.34 | 0.33 | 0.31 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| L | 1.18 | 0.34 | 0.33 | 0.31 | — | — |
| E | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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C = L + E. Health care costs (C) consists of loss (L) caused by diseases and the preventive and treatment expenditures (E).