The experience of project Healthy Little Brazilian Boys and Girls Strategy (EBBS), developed by Fernandes Figueira Institute (IFF/Fiocruz) and with Fiotec’s support, was narrated in the book “The contribution of Healthy Little Brazilian Boys and Girls Strategy in building a policy for full attention to children’s health” (free translation). The release took place on 6/13, at Olinto de Oliveira Studies Center (CEOO). With a printing of 1.5 thousand units and free distribution to professionals and other authors related to the field of full attention to children’s health, the book tells the trajectory and results of implementing the strategy in the municipalities where it operates.

Readers will find in the work contributions of authors such as John Bowlby, Donald Winnicott, Humberto Maturana, Antonio Damásio and Richard Sennett, who set out to transmit the comprehension of the fundamental importance of the first years in the life of the child (the so-called early childhood, which in Brazil extends to up to 6 years of age) and the outline that their experience in the present in a given physical, emotional and social environment may cause, not only in the here and now, but also in their future and in the course of development of society and the country.

Healthy Little Brazilian Boys and Girls Strategy

Healthy Little Brazilian Boys and Girls Strategy was created, in 2007, as a joint initiative between the Ministry of Health and Fiocruz, based on the proposition of the Program for Acceleration of Growth of the federal government applied to the health area, associating the country’s growth and development to that of each one of its citizens.

The purpose is to favor the implementation of integrated inter-sector strategies with a priority focus on early childhood, so as to guarantee and qualify the life of Brazilian children; to define actions within the field of health, with the perspective of integrating agendas in joint efforts to optimize resources and increase the effects as an improvement in health in early childhood; and to develop a pilot project in six Brazilian municipalities within the five Brazilian macro-regions.