Recentralization of local government chief administrative officers appointments in Uganda: Implications for downward accountability

Canadian chief executive officers' prescription for higher quality: more clinical engagement, shared accountability and capacity development.

uality of Healthcare in Canada: A Chartbook, published by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) in 2010, showed that when compared with other developed countries, Canada ranks in the middle of the pack with respect to healthcare quality. How we can best achieve higher-quality care is a much-debated issue in Canada and in most modern healthcare systems – and there are many con...

Perceptions of Malaysian Local Government Managers on Accountability Typology

Accountability is a concept that has been difficult to clearly identify or measure. There is disagreement over definitions of accountability and a lack of empirical evidence about ways the concept might be dimensionalized, although there is agreement that it is multi-dimensional in nature. The aim of this study is to provide evidence of the existence of common types of accountability that are c...

Health Management Information Systems Executives: Roles and Responsibilities of Chief Executive Officers and Chief Information Officers in Healthcare Services Organizations

Study on the Administrative Accountability System: From the Perspective of the Government Information Publicity

The regulation of government information publicity has been implemented for more than seven years, the effect is not good. The administrative accountability system has failed to play its proper oversight role. Currently, this system has the difficulties of ineffective work of government information publicity, the poor effect of the external accountability and limited cases caused by the governm...

Ophthalmic clinical officers: developments in Uganda

• Tertiary level: ophthalmologists (there are about 40 in the country) and ophthalmic nurses (there are two), working at national and regional referral hospitals. • Secondary/district level: ophthalmic clinical officers (OCOs). There are over 200 in the country. • Primary level: nurses, midwives and other health workers who are trained in eye care and who work at health centres; they are known ...