Compared to their urban counterparts, rural and remote inhabitants experience lower life
expectancy and poorer health status. Nowhere is the worldwide shortage of health …

Purpose Medical schools face growing pressures to produce stronger evidence of their
social accountability, but measuring social accountability remains a global challenge. This …

Health systems worldwide are confronted with challenges due to increased demand from
their citizens, an aging population, a variety of health risks and limited resources. Key health …

This literature review describes the impact of health professional schools with a social
accountability mandate by identifying characteristics of medical education found to impact …

Across the globe, a “fit for purpose” health professional workforce is needed to meet health
needs and challenges while capitalizing on existing resources and strengths of …

Background 'Grow your own'strategies are considered important for developing rural
workforce capacity. They involve selecting health students from specific rural regions and …

Objectives: Primary care and public health comprise the bedrock of health systems, but their
divergence has produced two groups of practitioners either focused on individual health or …

Aim: This paper addresses the question of how social accountability is conceptualised by
staff, students and community members associated with four medical schools aspiring to be …

Objectives Social accountability is an equity-oriented health policy strategy that requires
institutions to focus on local population needs. This strategy is well established in health …

Background: Socially-accountable health professional education (SAHPE) is committed to
achieving health equity through training health-workers to meet local health needs and …