Within this area, the Robust Design Methodology has a historic connection to sustainability vis-à-vis quality loss caused by a product not only to an individual customer, but to society at large.
Many interviewees indicated that health insurers differed considerably with regard to their focus on costs vis-à-vis quality of care, and all interviewees who saw this difference said that health insurer X was also interested in quality, while health insurer Y tended to focus mainly on costs.
The study is done empirically by analysing the difference between expectations and perceptions of the students, vis-̂-vis service quality.
This may also reduce some reservations of the various stakeholders vis-à-vis imposed quality approaches.
Responsiveness of health services to population health needs is a further area that can have impact vis-à-vis the quality of services.
In order to analyse respondents' perceptions vis-à-vis the quality of health care and the likelihood of being harmed by hospital or non-hospital care, we focused on two questions.
In this study, results of microbial counts in milk at the secondary collection centre indicated that there was no significant difference in microbial load of milk handled by individuals trained on milk quality vis a vis those without training.
However, the corollary was that the lack of competition in and between public hospitals does not force doctors to constantly assess and improve their quality vis a vis their peers or 'customers': I guess me personally, yeah, I'd probably always go for a private setting for any kind of surgery.
I admire their adventuresome quality vis-à-vis fixed-gear bike-riding and their non-prudishness in the face of nudity.
This finding is of special relevance because it explicates the interconnection between on-farm soil quality vis-à-vis crop yields by objectively blending soil attributes from different management scenarios and soil layers.
Understanding the provider's role and scope of influence vis-à-vis access and quality will inform policy makers who advocate for and implement change.
