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...

Objective: The present study was to identify the dimensions and components of promoting accountability of high school principals in Hormozgan province. Method: The present study was a qualitative, descriptive and thematic analysis with an exploratory inductive approach. In this study, up to data saturation, 10 experts who had done research in the field of educational management and were expe...

The pervasiveness of social media in modern communication has created increased liability for healthcare providers when trying to safeguard patients' protected health information (PHI). This article addresses a few of the most basic but pervasive ways, including "friending," "tagging," and "blogging," that PHI is unthinkingly shared on social media platforms and the precautions that providers c...

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 Experts consider social accountability as a new paradigm in medical education and a cultural change that is necessary to be studied and understood more deeply. One of the problems of medical education is the inadequacy of medicine graduates to meet the social accountability. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the general medicine curriculum for social accountability. ...