Abstract
The doctrine of Sustainability is known to be a holistic approach and there is an increased recognition that Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are linked to one another. Within less than two decades, the present pandemic (COVID19) is the third emerged highly pathogenic and deadly human coronaviruses. Hence, risk of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) is a key component of the sustainable development approach. In order to determine knowledge, awareness and attitude, an online questionnaire-based survey was conducted in a total of 114 members of Saudi Arabian’s staff. Results about knowledge and awareness varied between 98.2 % and 38.59%. About 77.21% (Mean value) of the participants are well awarded about the subject of the study. The constant collation of the showed that the majorities of the correlation between variables were very strong (20.87%) or strong (38.46%). Synthetically, themes such as human impact on the environment, human health and global stability, SDGs and pandemics, human susceptibility for diseases and uses of drugs were found to be interdepend in the perception of the academic staff in the Saudi Arabian universities. It is suggested that there is a need to introduce time-oriented policy, and implement awareness plans in the country for the future generation.
Highlights
HWB: Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS): SARS-CoV-2: Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS): Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Human Well Being Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
Wilcox and Colwell [9] reported that emerging infectious disease (EID) can be induced according to the host range (e.g tuberculosis, cholera, malaria, ....ect); or according to new emerged variants assigned to known pathogens (e.g., HIV, Nipah virus, Ebola virus..ect), or according to bacteria newly resistant to antibiotics, notably the multiple resistant strains that render the armamentarium of antibiotics useless [10]
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), can be affected by global pandemics as a suitable answer is known by 112 respondents
Summary
HWB: SARS: SARS-CoV-2: MERS: SDGs: Human Well Being Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Over the past three decades, more than 30 new infectious diseases have emerged to threaten the health of millions of people worldwide. The virus is named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV-2) [13] and will be referred to as coronavirus. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), which are caused by coronaviruses [14] Within less than two decades, there have emerged three highly pathogenic and deadly human coronaviruses, namely SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. This paper explores how the emerging and re-emerging diseases pandemic (2019nCoV) may affect addressing awareness issues at the heart of the concept of sustainable development within the Academic staff from Saudi Arabian Universities
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