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...

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...

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...

OBJECTIVE In health, accountability has since long been acknowledged as a central issue, but it remains an elusive concept. The literature on accountability spans various disciplines and research traditions, with differing interpretations. There has been little transfer of ideas and concepts from other disciplines to public health and global health. In the frame of a study of accountability of ...

While the patient safety field has emphasised 'systems thinking' as its central theme, experts have pointed to the need to balance this 'no blame' approach with the need for accountability in certain circumstances, such as failure to heed reasonable safety standards. Our growing appreciation of the importance of accountability raises several new questions, including the relative roles of person...

Drawing from Antonio Gramsci’s ideas, a dialectic analysis of accountability change in a large, Bangladesh NGO – BRAC is conducted to investigate how BRAC extended accountability issues within society; and how hegemonic and counter-hegemonic dialectics changed accountability practices. The paper details how a functional accountability was transformed into a holistic social form as it interacted...

trust services, accountability, identity, B2B, e-commerce To be successful, e-commerce solutions need to properly address accountability issues. Accountability is fundamental to business, and identity is fundamental to accountability. This paper analyses the role identity services play in supporting business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. There are many good reasons for outsourcing identity mana...