Roles and Responsibility of Public Participation

Roles Are Responsibility Relationships Really

Many approaches to role-based information systems assume that a role definition is one-sided, in that it applies to an individual person or single organisational entity. In fact, however, many roles are defined as a relationship between two entities (e.g. customer—supplier, doctor—patient), and it is the nature of the relationships in which an individual participates that defines a role. This r...

Civic Responsibility and Patterns of Voluntary Participation around the World

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Public roles of US physicians: community participation, political involvement, and collective advocacy.

CONTEXT Whether physicians have a professional responsibility to address health-related issues beyond providing care to individual patients has been vigorously debated. Yet little is known about practicing physicians' attitudes about or the extent to which they participate in public roles, which we defined as community participation, political involvement, and collective advocacy. OBJECTIVES ...

Science and social responsibility in public health.

Epidemiologists and environmental health researchers have a joint responsibility to acquire scientific knowledge that matters to public health and to apply the knowledge gained in public health practice. We examine the nature and source of these social responsibilities, discuss a debate in the epidemiological literature on roles and responsibilities, and cite approaches to environmental justice...

Moral Culture: Public Morality and Private Responsibility