background: social accountability in the schools of medicine is very important. it is an essence to recognize the methods and models used and implemented in the world in order to make use of the results and experiences. therefore, the purpose of the present study was to review some models of social accountability in the world. methods: the key words, including social accountability, faculty of ...

In 1978 two United Nations organizations, the World Health Organization and UNICEF, held a joint conference at Alma Ata in the Soviet Union at which health was described as a human right to which all people were entitled. The goal of achieving health for all by the end of the century was established. The Alma Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care emerged from this conference. It was endorsed o...

Social medicine as a term has achieved acceptance in medical education and medical practice, although there is still some question as to its acceptance in reality. The term had its origin in the vigorous nineteenth-century efforts at both medical and social reform, combining the two in a recognition of the intimate connection between social factors and the causation of disease. Henry Ernest Sig...

background certain social determinants may influence host susceptibility to tuberculosis (tb) infections, and increase the risk of developing the disease. objectives the present study aimed to evaluate the effects of several host and environmental factors on the risk of tb in northern iranian households. patients and methods this case-control study was conducted for one year between 2010 and 20...

the aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between social capital among employees with their job performance in tehran's forensic medicine organization. the study population consisted of all the employees of tehran's forensic medicine organization in 2015 that based on available statistics are 120 employees that because of limited statistical population, sampling has not...

Even though most of the aspects of medicine are thoroughly described in Ayurveda, proper division of the branches is needed as in the other systems of medicine. This paper gives the significance of the individual study of aspects on social medicine in this system and attempts to distinguish some of the contexts from the classics meant for this study.