“The fact that Sanofi is associated with a media partner, Jornal de Negusius, provides widespread publicity for the excellent initiatives that are put forward to compete each year, which is a great pleasure,” says Maria de Belém Rosera, Chair of the Jury. .
The 12th Sustainable Health Award consists of five categories: Citizen-Centered Healthcare; health innovation; integration and continuity of care; health promotion and disease prevention; and digital transformation. It is open to any entity or career field of public, private or social health care providers, who can submit their applications until May 22, 2023.
As for the evaluation criteria included in the regulation, there are the health gains that the project has already achieved in the competition and the satisfaction and experience of the citizen, as stated by Maria de Belém Rosera, Chair of the Sustainable Health Jury. prize.
Also considered is the possibility of simulating the project developed in other institutions or contexts, and the marked improvement in the experience and satisfaction of users in accessing and using health services. Two other important dimensions, as highlighted by Maria de Belém Roseira, are environmental sustainability, which refers to concern for the quality of life of future generations, and economic sustainability, which has to do with the project’s impact on efficiency, savings and cost. Reduce or reduce waste.
Once the selection is completed, the jury selects the candidates who will present their project in a presentation and allocates the award or honorable mention to those with the best result.
Personal award
The Personality Award is given, by direct selection by the jury, to “a personality who has distinguished himself throughout his life for the quality, relevance and excellence of what he has done and how he has done it throughout his career,” explains María de Belém-Rozera. “It is this last distinction in which the jury often fails to achieve unanimity. But it always generates an interesting, open, and spirited debate that leaves no wounds. Rather, it reveals our diversity, which should engender confidence in the fairness of the assessments made,” she reveals. Maria de Belém Rosera. The former Minister of Health and Personality always associated with social, health and equality issues, who succeeded Jorge Sampaio, says that “given the previous history and the prestige achieved by the Prize over more than twelve years it is an honor and a privilege for me to be its current President”.
Maria de Belém Rosera
The future face of installment: reuse
In this statement, the Chairman of the Jury of the Sustainable Health Award highlights the uniqueness of this distinction that enterprises from the different sectors recognized by the Portuguese Constitution can apply, such as the public, social and private economy.
“The Sustainable Health Award, when it was created some twelve years ago, on the initiative of Jornal de Negócios and Sanofi, was innovative in the message it intended to underline. In the health sector, this analysis focused almost exclusively on what had a direct relationship to dealing with Waste generated in health care units and by suppliers of materials for clinical consumption.i.e. the environmental aspect from the perspective of preventing pollution risks and adopting clean technologies for this purpose.But it was not also concerned with other dimensions of sustainability, such as health outcomes in organizations resulting from their good practices or solutions that allow By increasing the security of the services produced by providing resources.
With regard to the environmental dimension as well as the social and economic dimensions, it is time to add, in future editions, another aspect that has assumed increasing importance, which is the reuse of products as long as they meet all safety standards and quality requirements. Indeed, according to international studies, if the health of the whole world were a country, it would rank fifth in the group of largest polluters!
The jury was chaired from the beginning until its disappearance by President Jorge Sampaio, whose support and taste for these subjects was well known and, in all due respect, added enormous prestige to the prize.
The uniqueness of this distinction stems from the fact that enterprises from different sectors of production recognized by the Portuguese constitution can apply for it – public, economic, social and private – and with this presidency due to an unexpected personality, biased criticism of the mores and the prize has, since its first edition, a number large number of participants.
This is despite the mere awarding of an award that proves the merit of distinguished projects in the various categories it covers, whether in the form of an award or an honorable mention that has no material value.
The categories it distinguishes are expressly described in the Regulations of the Prize, with free access as transparency dictates, and all the steps to be followed by contestants are expressly described there, without prejudice to the ability to consult doubts.
The selection process is supported by NTT DATA and the final decisions are taken by an independent jury that includes members from the Assembly of the Republic to former members of government or senior public administration in the sector, as well as heads of professional associations or related associations in the health sector.
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