The Auditorium on the Sant Cugat Health Campus played host to the ceremony of the 2018 Hestia Awards for Excellence in Social Healthcare and Mental Health Research, organised by the Hestia Chair in Integrated Health and Social Care. Altogether, the first edition recorded 68 submitted projects from various autonomous communities, such as Aragon, Andalusia, Asturias, Castile-La Mancha, Castile and León, Madrid, the Basque Country and Valencia.
The aim of these awards, open to both professionals and students, is to acknowledge the best initiatives in the field of health and social care and mental health research undertaken in 2016-2017 to improve the care given to complex chronic patients with a high degree of social vulnerability.
According to Dr Xavier Corbella, director of the Hestia Chair, “the success of the first edition of the Hestia Awards is a source of great pride for us and proves there is a growing need to recognise the workers and institutions who dedicate their efforts to researching and innovating in the fields of curative and social care and educational support for dependent people”.
Best published article
1st prize – Diego Hidalgo-Mazzei – Proyecto SIMPLe (Self-monitoring and psychoeducation in bipolar patients with a smartphone application) abstract powerpoint
Runner-up – Cristina Bermejo Boixareu – Establecimiento y desarrollo de un programa de coordinación entre el servicio de urgencias hospitalario y el ámbito residencial. abstract powerpoint
Finalists – Javier Santabárbara Serrano, Domingo Palacios Ceña, Esteban Sepúlveda Ramos, Cristina Monforte Royo
Best conference communication
Prize – Laura Mónica Pérez – Integrated geriatric and primary care management of frail older adults in the community. abstract powerpoint
Finalists – Juan José Fernández Miranda, Cristina Bermejo Boixareu, Esteban Sepúlveda Ramos
Best bachelor’s or master’s thesis
Prize – Nagore Zinkunegui Zubizarreta – Efectos de una intervención de ejercicio físico en los adultos mayores institucionalizados: función física, masa muscular y parámetros cardiometabólicos. abstract powerpoint
Finalist – Jesús Rebull Bramón
Scientific committee: Dr. Xavier Corbella and Dr. Miquel Fernández Castañer from the Hestia Chair, Dr. Angels Cañas and Dr. Susana Subirà from Fundación Hestia, Dr. Joan Bosch from UIC Barcelona, Dr. Albert Alonso from the International Foundation for Integrated Care and Joan Carles Contel del Departament de Salut de la Generalitat de Catalunya.
The 2018 Hestia Awards ceremony came to an end with a lecture by Dr Miguel Caínzos entitled “Using Big Data to determine the impact of socio-economic status on the prognosis of patients with chronic heart failure”.
We would like to thank all of the researchers who sent their work and we hope to continue recognising your work with future initiatives.
