The project First Ties, of the National Institute of Science and Technology, led by a team from the Institute of Psychiatry (IPQ) from the Clínicas Hospital of the Medical School of the Universidade de São Paulo (HCFMUSP), has won at the category Innovation in Social Medicine, of the Abril & Dasa Award of Medical Innovation, on December 5th. Other four works have also been awarded, on the areas of Diagnostic Medicine, Genetics, Treatment and Prevention.
The project First Ties offers care which permits to better the life conditions of teenage mothers, who live in vulnerable socioeconomic condition, in the west region of São Paulo. Besides the prevention to the aggravation to physical and mental health, and the promotion of cognitive, social and emotional development in children. Prof. Guilherme Polanczyk, one of the coordinators, has explained “we aligned scientific accuracy, integrating the knowledge of several disciplines, such as neuroscience, genetics and psychiatry, with the excellency of health assistance”. Polanczyk complements: “this award represents the acknowledgement of the importance of the investment in early childhood. We are extremely honored and, above all, motivated to move forward working in early childhood in Brazil”.
Authors of the First Ties project are: Eurípedes Constantino Miguel Filho, Guilherme Vanoni Polanczyk, Anna Maria Chiesa, Alícia Matijasevich Manitto, Helena Paula Brentani, Alexandre Archanjo Ferraro, Lislaine Aparecida Fracolli, Daniel Graça Fatori de Sá, Fernando Speggiorin Pereira Alarcão, Verônica Luiza Vale Euclydes, Leticia Aparecida da Silva and Adriana Cristina Argeu.
