The purposes of social accounting in Italian public health organizations

Abstract

In recent years, within the panorama of Italian public organization, information and management tools are making their mark. Public health organization find themselves as part of those organization mentioned above, and the number of subjects who have decided or who have been "forced" to adopt the social report - or tools similar to it - is, by now, noteworthy. The current work aims to analyse the "mission statement" project carried out by the Emilia-Romagna Region for the purpose of verifying how it shapes out not just as an accountability tool, but also (or perhaps especially) as a tool whose aim is to support the mechanisms of governance within the regional health system.