This article reviews the now extensive research literature addressing the impact of accountability on a wide range of social judgments and choices. It focuses on 4 issues: (a) What impact do various accountability ground rules have on thoughts, feelings, and action? (b) Under what conditions will accountability attenuate, have no effect on, or amplify cognitive biases? (c) Does accountability a...

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...

Medical education needs to be socially responsible, socially responsive and accountable according to Global consensus for social accountability of medical schools document. Social responsibility is to be aware of the needs of the society. Social responsiveness is aligning the education, research and service arenas with the needs of the community. Social accountability is aiming for the better h...

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...

Introduction: Clearly, there are some challenges and difficultiesin fulfilling social accountability which should be identified anddealt with in order to reach the ultimate goal. The main objectiveof this study was to identify the challenges associated with socialaccountability.Methods: In this qualitative study, focus groups and in-depthsemi-structured interview were used to obtain the opinion...

In a laboratory experiment, we explore the effects of group identities on the principal-agent relationship between voters and representatives. In an adverse selection framework with observable effort, voters can choose to condition their reelection choices on representatives’ effort alone, beliefs about representatives’ competence, or both of those jointly. We show that inducing social identiti...

We consider sociotechnical systems (STSs) that facilitate social interaction among autonomous principals (either humans or organizations). Although accountability is a foundational concept in such systems, established requirements engineering methods do not support accountability in the broad sense of calling to account of one party by another. To address this shortcoming, we propose the notion...

BACKGROUND The Training for Health Equity Network (THEnet), a group of diverse health professional schools aspiring toward social accountability, developed and pilot tested a comprehensive evaluation framework to assess progress toward socially accountable health professions education. The evaluation framework provides criteria for schools to assess their level of social accountability within t...