Date of Award
2011
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Abstract
References to accountability are common throughout public administration literature. However, a clear model to assess accountability in government programs is not fully developed. This research fills this gap and provides policymakers with a tool they can use to assess accountability in both public and contracted programs and enables them to make more informed contracting-out decisions. In addition, the Integrated Accountability Framework introduced in this research will serve as a guideline for how public administrators can improve accountability in the programs they administer and oversee. For the public and private health care programs analyzed in this study, the findings indicate that the publicly delivered programs provided more accountability to the vulnerable populations served than the contracted-out health care programs.
Extent
xv, 160 p. : ill.
Recommended Citation
Cleare, Thomas W., "analysis of accountability in public-private health care programs serving vulnerable populations" (2011). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019. 216.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_6/216
Identifier
FADT3169917
Comments
by Thomas W. Cleare.|Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011.|Includes bibliography.|Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.|by Thomas W. Cleare.