Open Access 01-12-2017 | Research article
The social accountability of doctors: a relationship based framework for understanding emergent community concepts of caring
Published in: BMC Health Services Research | Issue 1/2017
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a central community of reciprocal relationships with the doctor-patient relationship as core;
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a level in which the systems of health and education interact and together with social determinants of health mediate the insertion of communities into a broader discourse.
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An ubuntu framing in which the tensions between vulnerability and power interact and reflect rights and responsibility. The space between these concepts is important for social accountability.