TY - JOUR T1 - Quantitative health impact assessment: taking stock and moving forward JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO - J Epidemiol Community Health SP - 1088 LP - 1091 DO - 10.1136/jech-2011-200835 VL - 66 IS - 12 AU - Rainer Fehr AU - Fintan Hurley AU - Odile Cecile Mekel AU - Johan P Mackenbach Y1 - 2012/12/01 UR - http://jech.bmj.com/content/66/12/1088.abstract N2 - Over the past years, application of health impact assessment has increased substantially, and there has been a strong growth of tools that allow quantification of health impacts for a range of health relevant policies. We review these developments, and conclude that further tool development is no longer a main priority, although several aspects need to be further developed, such as methods to assess impacts on health inequalities and to assess uncertainties. The main new challenges are, first, to conduct a comparative evaluation of different tools, and, second, to ensure the maintenance and continued availability of the toolkits including their data contents. ER -