BACKGROUND Since 1965, Medicare has publically financed graduate medical education (GME) in the United States. Given public financing, various advisory groups have argued that GME should be more socially accountable. Several efforts are underway to develop accountability measures for GME that could be tied to Medicare payments, but it is not clear how to measure or even define social accountabi...

always, accountability has been a key concept in public administration; but accountability in street-level bureaucracies where people have a daily contact with bureaucrats is of particular importance. the police are among these organizations which their accountability plays a pivotal role in obtaining public trust. the purpose of this study, which was carried out in the police stations of the s...

background: revising the medical education programs to meet the needs of society has become both a necessity and an important priority due to the considerable increase of population, changing patterns of diseases, and new health priorities. while this necessity has been highlighted in iran’s fifth development plan as well as its national 2025 vision plan, the determinants of social accountabili...

Background: Social accountability in the schools of medicine is very important. It is an essence to recognize the methods and models used and implemented in the world in order to make use of the results and experiences. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to review some models of social accountability in the world. Methods: The key words, including social accountability, faculty of ...

Introduction: Considering the pervasiveness of social accountablemedical education concept around the world and the growingtrend of literature in this regard as well as various interpretationsmade about this concept, we found it necessary to analyze theconcept of social accountable medical education.Methods: In this study, the modified version of McKenna’s approachto concept analysis was used t...

BACKGROUND Social accountability is defined as the responsibility of institutions to respond to the health priorities of a community. There is an international movement towards the education of health professionals who are accountable to communities. There is little evidence of how communities experience or articulate this accountability. METHODS In this grounded theory study eight community ...

BACKGROUND Accountability has center stage in the current post-Millennium Development Goals (MDG) debate. One of the effective strategies for building equitable health systems and providing quality health services is the strengthening of citizen-driven or social accountability processes. The monitoring of actions and decisions of policymakers and providers by citizens is regarded as a right in ...

839 The following manuscript is written by Dr Fraser Mustard, a scientist who for more than 10 years has promoted early child development for all children nationally and internationally. He outlines the complex socioeconomic and political factors our society faces to create more equity in child development, noting that the recently released World Health Organization report on the social determi...

Introduction: As health professionals, physicians are accountablefor their professional practice. The aim of this study was to explainthe medical students’ motivation to attain social accountability inmedical schools, based on the experience of both students andfaculties.Methods: We conducted a qualitative conventional contentanalysis research in Shiraz Unive...