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11/04/2018
Successful first edition of the Hestia Awards
A total of 68 projects from 43 Spanish institutions one Italian institution, which included 25 hospitals, health consortia and parks, 13 universities and six non-profit organisations, were submitted as part of the first edition of the Hestia Awards for Excellence in Social Healthcare and Mental Health Research.
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”.
The Award for Best Project or Publication went to the project “SIMPLe (Self-monitoring and psychoeducation in bipolar patients with a smartphone application)” by Diego Hidalgo-Mazzei from Hospital Clinic (IDIBAPS) and Hospital del Mar (IMIM) in Barcelona.
The Award for the Best Paper Presented at a Congress was given to Laura Pérez, from the Pere Virgili Social Healthcare Hospital, for her work “Integrated geriatric and primary care management of frail older adults in the community”.
Lastly, in the Best Final Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree Project category, the award went to Nagore Zinkunegui, from the University of the Basque Country, for the project “Efectos de una intervención de ejercicio físico en los adultos mayores institucionalizados: función física, masa muscular y parámetros cardiometabólicos” [Effects of physical exercise interventions in institutionalised older adults: Physical function, muscle mass and cardiometabolic parameters].
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 cardiac insufficiency”.