Malaysia awareness

Historically, PSP has occurred in North America (the Pacific Northwest and the Northeast) and Europe (Acres and Gray, 1978 Anderson, 1989). More recently, PSP has been reported in Japan, Malaysia, the Philipines, Indonesia, Latin America, and China (Anderson et al., 1996 Kao, 1993). The fatality rate for PSP varies on the basis of local health-care practitioner awareness of the disease and its treatment and on the capacity of the existing medical system to assist one or more poisoning victims needing respiratory support. For example, in recent outbreaks in Europe and North America, no deaths occurred among more than 200 cases. However, in similar outbreaks in southeast Asia and Latin America, where the disease is unfamiliar to local health practitioners and where health-care resources are limited, fatality rates of 2 to 14% have been reported (Kao, 1993). 

Abdul Aziz, A., Mohd-Yusof, K., Udin, A., Mohamad Yatim, J. (2013c). Inculcating awareness of sustainable development in first year engineering students—a comparative study of pedagogical approaches. Proceedings 5th Research in Engineering Education Symposium 2013, Putrajaya, Malaysia, Paper Session 4.1, July 5-6, 2013. ISBN 978-967-0194-35-6. 

Malaysia there is a process of implementing outcome-based education at all levels in the educational system to emphasize the development of competences (Borhan et al. 2012). This is fully in line with what is happening in the rest of the world (e.g. South America) where there also is a growing awareness of the need to educate new types of engineers and academics who are able to participate in global, collaborative and sustainable innovation processes. 

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