concurrently, organizations must respond effectively to social expectations and moral law and to achieve success in all areas and by respecting professional ethics adopt an appropriate procedure to achieve these expectations align with organizational goals to facilitates promotion of social accountability and realization of higher goals. in this study, we have formulated a framework by reviewin...

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...

introduction: clearly, there are some challenges and difficulties in fulfilling social accountability which should be identified and dealt with in order to reach the ultimate goal. the main objective of this study was to identify the challenges associated with social accountability. methods: in this qualitative study, focus groups and in-depth semi-structured interview were used to obtain the o...

Background Social accountability or citizen-led accountability has been promoted in many low- and middle-income countries to improve the quality, access to and use of maternal health services. Experiences with social accountability in maternal health services in Nepal have not yet been documented. This study identifies existing social accountability structures and activities in maternal h...

BACKGROUND Social accountability has been emphasised as an important strategy to increase the quality, equity, and responsiveness of health services. In many countries, health facility committees (HFCs) provide the accountability interface between health providers and citizens or users of health services. This article explores the social accountability practices facilitated by HFCs in Benin, Gu...

background: medial educations' models should train physicians with competencies and commitment to meet health needs in the community. this social accountability in medical education is not a new concept but provides equity, quality, relevance and cost-effectiveness in health care system. the aim of this study was to assess the knowledge of faculty members towards the situation and activiti...

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 ...

background and purpose: social accountability, a concept which is in the focal attention more than ever, is to provide service in the field of medical sciences. we aimed to identify the educational challenges to train accountable graduates in the medical education system to meet social needs. methods: this study was conducted by qualitative content analysis using in-depth semi-structured interv...