MANUEL FRANCO

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Associate Professor/MD PhD

Universidad de Alcalá de Henares Facultad de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud

Spain

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Dr. Manuel Franco is an Associate Professor at Universidad de Alcalá de Henares Facultad de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud in Spain. His research focuses on public health, urban design, and socioeconomic factors affecting dietary behaviors and physical activity. Recent articles by Dr. Franco explore themes such as sustainable school meal policies, urban heat injustice, and the impact of local food environments on health outcomes.

Recent Grants

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OBCT Obesity: Biological, socioCultural, and environmental risk Trajectories

Open Date: 2024-04-01

Close Date: 2029-04-01

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Shifting school meals and schools into a new paradigm by addressing public health and territorial, social and environmental resilience

Open Date: 2022-01-01

Close Date: 2025-12-01

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Digital labour platforms and its effects on health and well-being: a mixed-method project of gig workers in Sweden.

Open Date: 2022-01-01

Close Date: 2024-12-31

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Distribución y uso de los parques en Madrid y su relación con la actividad física y la enfermedad cardiovascular: un sub-estudio del proyecto Heart Healthy Hoods

Open Date: 2019-01-01

Close Date: 2021-12-31

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Social and Physical Urban Environment and Cardiovascular Health: The Much Needed Population Approach

Open Date: 2014-04-01

Close Date: 2019-03-31

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Collaborators (9)

Isabel del Cura-Gonzalez

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

SPAIN

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Ana M. Vicedo-Cabrera

University of Bern

SWITZERLAND

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Usama Bilal

Assistant Professor

Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health

UNITED STATES

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Pedro Gullon

Profesor Ayudante Doctor

Universidad de Alcalá

SPAIN

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Marta Gutiérrez Sastre

Universidad de Salamanca

SPAIN

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Jesús Rivera

Profesor titular de universidad

Universidad de Salamanca

SPAIN

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Julia Diez

Assistant Professor

Universidad de Alcalá

SPAIN

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David Valades

Universidad de Alcalá

SPAIN

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Beatriz Perez-Gomez

Head of Area

SPAIN

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Protecting children’s health through universal and sustainable school meals: European and US urban policy experiences

Universal, healthy and sustainable school meals: An opportunity for impactful food and climate research

Exploring urban design’s impact on physical activity: A participatory photovoice study across socioeconomically diverse neighborhoods

Embodying and resisting urban heat injustice: Migrant Vulnerabilities and Radical Adaptations in El Raval, Barcelona

Physical Activity Inequalities in Adolescents From Areas of Different Socioeconomic Status

Modifying effect of urban parks on socioeconomic inequalities in diabetes prevalence: a cross-sectional population study of Madrid City, Spain

Beyond exit, voice, and loyalty: the role of urban resistance in a deprived neighborhood of Madrid

Madrid immigrants’ perceptions of urban food environments and their dietary behaviours

Local retail food environment exposure and diet quality in rural and urban adults: A longitudinal analysis of the ORISCAV-LUX cohort study

Exercise facility availability and incidence of type 2 diabetes and complications in Spain: A population-based retrospective cohort 2015–2018

Diet Quality Changes by Educational Level among Adults in Spain from 2017 to 2021

Social and ideological determinants of COVID-19 vaccination status in Spain

Who benefits from green spaces? Surrounding greenness and incidence of cardiovascular disease in a population-based electronic medical records cohort in Madrid

Heat-related first cardiovascular event incidence in the city of Madrid (Spain): Vulnerability assessment by demographic, socioeconomic, and health indicators

Fostering healthy and sustainable nursery school food systems: the case study of Madrid City

Correlates of eating behaviors in adolescence: a systematic review of qualitative studies

Exploring perceptions of alcohol consumption in unlicensed public places among individuals aged 40 and over: A qualitative study across socioeconomically diverse neighbourhoods in Madrid, Spain

Towards an equitable people-centred health system for Spain

Factors influencing dietary inequalities among adolescents in Madrid and Bilbao: a qualitative research project

Three years of the COVID-19 pandemic in a European region: A population-based longitudinal assessment in Madrid between 2020 and 2022

Food availability and affordability in a Mediterranean urban context: Associations by store type and area-level socioeconomic status

Collaborators (9)

Isabel del Cura-Gonzalez

Ana M. Vicedo-Cabrera

Usama Bilal

Pedro Gullon

Marta Gutiérrez Sastre

Jesús Rivera

Julia Diez

David Valades

Beatriz Perez-Gomez

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