Quantitative health impact assessment: Taking stock and moving forward

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1088-1091

  Fehr, Rainer ^a   Hurley, Fintan ^b   Mekel, Odile Cecile ^a   Mackenbach, Johan P ^a,c  

^a WHO Collaborating Center for Regional Health Policy and Public Health   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLICY; PUBLIC HEALTH; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 84872015072     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2011-200835     Document Type: Note

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