Social Accountability in Theory and Practice

[Practising social accountability: From theory to action].

Screening for poverty. 2,3 Providing health care to uninsured migrants.4 Advocating for a national pharmacare program.5 These are but 3 examples of how family physicians are currently actualizing social accountability in Canada at the individual (micro), community (meso), and system (macro) levels. Social accountability is the social contract that medicine has with society.6 For care to be soci...

Social partnership: Theory and practice

recent Korean governments have attempted to use social partnership as a mechanism to achieve cooperative and peaceful industrial relations and to balance economic effi ciency with social equity in the context of globalisation. This paper has two aims. First it seeks to put the current social partnership experiment in historical perspective and argues that current developments in Korean industri...

Considering social accountability in rehabilitation therapy school

As you know, there is increasing attention insocial accountability concept for medicaland other health professional schools. Despite theuniqueness of the concept of social accountability,it has different definitions in various fields. TheWorld Health Organization (WHO) has describedsocial accountability generally as follows: “theobligation to direct education, research andservice activities tow...

IT Governance from Theory to Practice: The Importance of Accountability

It is widely acknowledged that Information Technology (IT) Governance is extremely complex and at the same time equally critical when organisations endeavour to maximize their IT investments. IT Governance provides the means for decision making required to ensure that IT enables the organization to excel in its mission. IT systems are often viewed as monetary drains rather than seen as fundamen...

Social Accountability in Cambodia