Public Accountability: Research and Practice

European family practice and public accountability.

Accountability, trust and informed consent in medical practice and research.

During the last 25 years public policy in the UK has aimed to replace 'club' cultures and their supposedly suspect reliance on trust between professionals and public with a new public culture based on accountability and 'transparency'. These transformations have changed both clinical practice and public health policy in deep ways. Are the new conceptions of accountability adequate? Are obligati...

public accountability in public banking and private banking: a comparative research

the main purpose of this research is to compare public accountability of public and private banking systems from customers’ point of views. by reference presented researches, related types, dimensions and variable were identified. the questionnaire based on 37 variables was distributed among customers who use the services of both banks simultaneously in tehran. findings reveal that there is a d...

Public health research and practice in Africa

We are delighted to present the maiden edition of the Journal of Public Health in Africa (JPHIA). Like most great innovations, the idea behind JPHIA was spontaneously conceived upon observing the precarious state of public health care delivery in the African continent. The JPHIA is set up as non-profit making open source that will compete with other world class journals. The strength of JPHIA i...

Public sector governance and accountability

The collection of papers in this special issue has primarily been drawn from the papers representing the ‘‘Corporate Governance and accountability in the Public Sector’’ stream of the Seventh International Critical Management Studies Conference (CMS 7), which was held at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, in July 2011. The stream was inspired by international reforms focussed on the m...