Introduction Should faith-based organizations delivering social services be held to the same standards of accountability as other government and non-profit providers in measuring their effectiveness? Believing the answer to this question is yes, Volunteers of America, one of the country's largest faith-based social service providers, recently embarked on an ambitious effort to collect outcome d...

1 It is often maintained that integrated care is the only approach that can produce good health care whilst simultaneously improving a system’s accountability to social care needs. In this sense, integrated care defines a context in which ‘caring’ means ‘taking care’—in other words, the process whereby members of the public are provided with complete assistance involving an integrated path amid...

In 1995, the World Health Organization 1 formally defined social accountability in the context of medical education as the obligation of medical schools to meet the priority health needs of the communities they serve. This definition highlights the fact that the role physicians play in addressing gaps in health care delivery and health outcomes is central to the profession. This makes sense to ...

Since anonymous agents can spread misinformation with impunity, many people advocate for greater accountability for internet speech. This paper provides a veritistic argument that accountability mechanisms can cause significant epistemic problems for internet encyclopedias and social media communities. I show that accountability mechanisms can undermine both the dissemination of true beliefs an...

1Student Research Committee, Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran *Corresponding author: Amir Emami Zeydi, Student Research Committee, Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran. Tel: +98-9355952357, Fax: +98-51385915...

Using cross-country data from a sample of low, middle and high-income countries, the paper provides the first empirical test of the empirical relationships between national measures of social capital (civic and public), social divergence and social capacity upon various indicators of national environmental performance. The results indicate a possible link between public social capital (democrac...

Although medical education is a broad field of research and practice, it has come to be dominated by issues of assessment. Reasons for this emphasis range from the focus on accountability for educational outcomes to the established relationship between assessment and student motivation. Researchers in the domain, especially in North America, have largely focused on methodologies taken from psyc...

this study examines the relationship between corporate social performance and the company's internal control. for the study, the definition of corporate social performance is used wood (wood, 1991) and social performance into the process (internal processes, management) and outcome (social impact) is divided. to assess the social performance of corporate social performance version of the q...