How the Global Initiative Report's Indicators are Related to the Strong Sustainability Concept? - A Paraconsistent Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Estevao S. Langa ◽  
Feni Agostinho ◽  
Genguyan Liu ◽  
Cecılia M.V.B. Almeida ◽  
Biagio F. Giannetti
Keyword(s):  
Strong Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Concept ◽  
Global Initiative

QFD APPROACH FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT OF A SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEM

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Nur Indrianti ◽  
Devika Kumala ◽  
Tri Wibawa
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Quality Function Deployment ◽  
Service System ◽  
Design Tool ◽  
Productivity Index ◽  
Product Service System ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Product Service ◽  
Service Productivity ◽  
Sustainability Concept

Increasing awareness of the importance of services has given rise to the concept of product-service system where goods and services are sold as an integrated package to customers. On the other hand, the emerging sustainability concept has escalated the demand for sustainability for industries. Consequently, it is necessary to build strategies that lead the company to achieve sustainability goals while keeping competitiveness. Drawing on the necessity service and sustainability concept in the quality improvement of the product-service system, this study aims to develop a systematic design tool by filling the gap to the previous studies. We used Quality Function Deployment (QFD) approach by considering customer requirements (VoC) and stakeholder requirements (VoSt), instead of VoC only, based on the service and sustainability dimensions. We refer to the proposed QFD approach as QFDSPS. We introduce service productivity index (SPI) to measure the performance of the system. Thus, in the proposed methodology, the strategies for quality improvement were defined as subject to VoC, VoSt, and SPI. The methodology was implemented in a Javanese restaurant which meets the characteristics of a product-service system. The result shows that the proposed method can be implemented. The implications due to the implementation of the method are also discussed.

scholarly journals World Health Organization Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care: 2011 and Beyond

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (7) ◽  
pp. 1462-1469 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Spiegel ◽  
Fizan Abdullah ◽  
Raymond R. Price ◽  
Richard A. Gosselin ◽  
Stephen W. Bickler
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Surgical Care ◽  
World Health ◽  
Global Initiative ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Essential Surgical Care

scholarly journals Resource Scarcity and Sustainability—The Shapes Have Shifted but the Stakes Keep Rising

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 5751
Author(s):  
Alan Randall
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Renewable Resource ◽  
Resource Scarcity ◽  
Problem Definition ◽  
Planetary Boundaries ◽  
Strong Sustainability ◽  
Management Concepts ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Sustainability Theory ◽  
Assimilation Capacity

The objective is to provide an interpretive reading of the literature in resource scarcity and sustainability theory from the nineteenth century to the present time, focusing on shifts that have occurred in problem definition, conceptual framing, research tools applied, findings, and their implications. My reading shows, as one would expect, that the discourse has become more technical and the analysis more sophisticated; special cases have been incorporated into the mainstream of theory; and, where relevant, dynamic formulations have largely supplanted static analysis. However, that is barely scratching the surface. Here, I focus on more fundamental shifts. Exhaustible and renewable resource analyses were incorporated into the mainstream theory of financial and capital markets. Parallels between the resources and environmental spheres were discovered: market failure concepts, fundamental to environmental policy, found applications in the resources sector (e.g., fisheries), and renewable resource management concepts and approaches (e.g., waste assimilation capacity) were adopted in environmental policy. To motivate sustainability theory and assessment, there has been a foundational problem shift from restraining human greed to dealing with risk viewed as chance of harm, and a newfound willingness to look beyond stochastic risk to uncertainty, ambiguity, and gross ignorance. Newtonian dynamics, which seeks a stable equilibrium following a shock, gave way to a new dynamics of complexity that valued resilience in the face of shocks, warned of potential for regime shifts, and focused on the possibility of systemic collapse and recovery, perhaps incomplete. New concepts of sustainability (a safe minimum standard of conservation, the precautionary principle, and planetary boundaries) emerged, along with hybrid approaches such as WS-plus which treats weak sustainability (WS) as the default but may impose strong sustainability restrictions on a few essential but threatened resources. The strong sustainability objective has evolved from maintaining baseline flows of resource services to safety defined as minimizing the chance of irreversible collapse. New tools for management and policy (sustainability indicators and downscaled planetary boundaries) have proliferated, and still struggle to keep up with the emerging understanding of complex systems.

The use of technology for the growth of the sustainability concept inside community

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thiago Matheus Martins de Moraes ◽  
Henrique Amon de Lima Viveiros ◽  
Felipe Fernandes Jacintho ◽  
Gabriela Maia Camargo ◽  
Jose Feliciano Adami ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Sustainability Concept

scholarly journals Depression Levels Influence the Rate of Asthma Exacerbations in Females

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 586
Author(s):  
Papaporfyriou Anastasia ◽  
Tseliou Eleni ◽  
Mizi Eleftheria ◽  
Ntontsi Xenia ◽  
Papathanasiou Eygenia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Control Level ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Asthmatic Patients ◽  
Asthma Exacerbations ◽  
Depression Subscale ◽  
Global Initiative For Asthma ◽  
Asthma Patients ◽  
Global Initiative

Background: Anxiety and depression are common psychological disturbances among asthmatic patients. The aim of the present study is the assessment of anxiety and depression in asthmatic patients and their correlation with symptoms control level and number of exacerbations per year. Methods: One hundred patients with asthma diagnosis, according to the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), aged > 18 years old, having a stable disease, were included. Emotional status was evaluated using the Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS). Patients were followed up for a year to assess the number and severity of exacerbations. Results: Most of our patients were female (58%), middle-aged (mean = 54 ± 13), and married (81%), with low frequency of smoking habits (smokers, ex-smokers and non-smokers were 26%, 30% and 37%, respectively) and low levels of both anxiety and depression [median (interquartile range (IQR)) = 4(2) and median (IQR) = 4(2), respectively]. At the low and moderate level of the depression subscale, female patients experienced asthma exacerbations more frequently compared to male patients (adjusted Incidence Rate Ratio (aIRR) = 4.30; 95% Confidence Interval (CI): 1.94–9.53 and aIRR = 1.82; 95% CI: 1.07–3.13, respectively). Conclusions. Clinicians should evaluate asthma patients for depression, as gender differentially influences outcomes among those with low and moderate levels of depression, with female asthmatics presenting more frequent exacerbations.

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