accountability
Definitions
Accounting
- noun the fact of being responsible to someone for something, e.g. the accountability of directors to the shareholders
Health Economics
- (written as Accountability)Accountability entails the ability of others to hold someone to account through mechanisms such as minutes of meetings, reporting requirements and audit trails.
Medical
- noun the state of being responsible to someone else for an action
Politics
- noun the situation of being required to explain what has happened and take responsibility for it
