Piano lessons, weekly laboratory meetings, and visits to health care providers have in common an accountability that encourages people to follow a specified course of action. The accountability inherent in the social interaction between a patient and a health care provider affects patients' motivation to adhere to treatment. Nevertheless, accountability is a concept not found in adherence model...

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...

BACKGROUND District level health system governance is recognised as an important but challenging element of health system development in low and middle-income countries. Accountability is a more recent focus in health system debates. Accountability mechanisms are governance tools that seek to regulate answerability between the health system and the community (external accountability) and/or bet...

Urban food strategies are increasingly being used as means to address a multitude of challenges presented by food system failings. The use of participatory approaches has become common practice in the field of urban food systems planning. These approaches are believed to democratize, legitimize and increase effectiveness of addressing challenges. Despite these “promises”, they have also been vi...

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...

KERALA EXPERIENCE S. M Vijayanand1 What is Social Accountability? Accountability in its basic sense implies rendering of accounts and, by extension, indicates answerability to an external agency or group and, further, implies ensuring propriety, legality and safeguarding public interest in satisfaction of the expectations of the external agency or group. Social Accountability suggests account...

This work studies the support research on multiagent systems can give to the automation of computation of accountability (computational accountability), an din particular to accountability in organizational contexts. It introduces the idea of guaranteeing accountability as a design property of socio-technical systems, and explain a set of principles which a socio-technical system should respect...