Addi van Bergen

CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 General introduction 7 CHAPTER 2 The association between social exclusion or inclusion and health in EU and OECD countries: a systematic review 23 CHAPTER 3 Measuring Social Exclusion in Routine Public Health Surveys: Construction of a Multidimensional Instrument 45 CHAPTER 4 Social Exclusion Index-for Health Surveys (SEI-HS): a prospective nationwide study to extend and validate a multidimensional social exclusion questionnaire 69 CHAPTER 5 Evaluating the cross-cultural validity of the Dutch version of the Social Exclusion Index for Health Surveys (SEI-HS): A mixed methods study 95 CHAPTER 6 The cumulation of ill health and low agency in socially excluded city dwellers in the Netherlands: how to better identify high-risk/high-need population segments with public health survey data 117 CHAPTER 7 Summary and general discussion 143 Appendices 159 Nederlandse samenvatting (Summary in Dutch) 210 Dankwoord (Acknowledgements in Dutch) 218 List of publications 220 About the author 225