The Purposes of social accounting in Italian public helth organizations

In recent years, within the panorama of Italian public organization, in- formation and management tools are making their mark. Public health or- ganization Önd themselves as part of those organization mentioned above, and the number of subjects who have decided or who have been ìforcedî to adopt the social report ñ or tools similar to it ñ is, by now, noteworthy. The current work aims to analyse the ìmission statementî project car- ried 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 es- pecially) as a tool whose aim is to support the mechanisms of governance within the regional health system.