Social accountability
Social Accountability is: "The obligation of medical schols to direct education, research and service activities towards addressing the priority health concerns of the community, region or nation that they are mandated to serve. The priority health concerns are to be identified jointly by governments, health care organizations, health professionals and the public” ─ (World Health Organization 1995)
Voices of Social Accountability
This video shares the experiences of leaders in social accountability demonstrating the real impact of engaging with communities to enhance medical education and improve health outcomes.
Dalhousie Medicine is
Committed to meaningfully engaging with, and being socially accountable to, its diverse, internal and external stakeholders. In striving to meet its education, research, patient care, population health and advocacy mandates, the medical school actualizes this responsibility through the integrated, practical application of the following four social accountability lenses to its deliberations, decisions and actions:
- Equity
- Diversity, Inclusion and Cultural Responsiveness
- Community Engagement and Partnering
- Justice-Fairness and Sustainability