Harry Mckay

Datos Biográficos

ID818869
NOMBREHarry Mckay
NOMBRESHarry
APELLIDOMckay
FIRMAMCKAY H
AFILIACIONESUniversity of British Columbia
ORCID0000-0002-5158-8006
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS37
TOTAL DE CITAS161
TOTAL COMO AUTOR37
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1993
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H6

  • No short cuts

    Open AccessDiya Chowdhury, Joanie Sims-Gould et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2026

    Racialized immigrant older adults (RIOAs) in Canada and other Global North countries face significant health inequities, yet remain underrepresented in health research and lack culturally appropriate health programs. While trust-building is essential for equitable community-engaged research, it requires time-intensive efforts to address cultural nuances, systemic barriers, and historical harms—often conflicting with institutional pressures for ef…

  • Building readiness in community-based organisations to enable the implementation of public health interventions for adults and older adults

    Open AccessLeanne Hassett, Anne M Moseley et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Open Science Framework, May 5, 2024

  • Developing a Research Agenda with Victim-Survivors to Improve Health Sector Responses to Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence in Australia

    Open AccessKatie Lamb, Harry Mckay et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Violence2024

    Purpose The World Health Organisation acknowledges the health sector as playing a key role in responding to those who experience and use domestic, family and sexual violence. Limited resources need to be well spent to ensure the best outcomes for victim-survivors and their families. This study was undertaken to explore : What do victim-survivors, researchers and practitioners see as the key research priorities for improving health sector response…

  • Effects of the Mobility-Fit Physical Activity Program on Strength and Mobility in Older Adults in Assisted Living

    Open AccessYijian Yang, Kimberley S van Schooten et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Physical activity programs focusing on fall prevention often overlook upper-limb strength, which is important for transferring, balance recovery, and arresting a fall. We developed and evaluated a physical activity program, Mobility-Fit for older adults in Assisted Living (AL) that includes upper-limb strengthening, agility, coordination, and balance exercises. Thirty participants (85 ± 6 years) were recruited from two AL facilities; 15 were assi…

  • Rapidly adapting an effective health promoting intervention for older adults—choose to move—for virtual delivery during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessSamantha M Gray, Todd Franke et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    It was feasible and acceptable to deliver CTM virtually. Programs such as CTM have potential to mitigate the unintended consequences of public health orders during COVID associated with reduced physical activity, social isolation, and loneliness. Adaptation and implementation strategies must be informed by community delivery partners and older adults themselves. Pragmatic, virtual health promoting interventions that can be adapted as contexts rap…

  • How central support built capacity to deliver a health‐promoting intervention for older adults in Canada

    Open AccessJoanie Sims-Gould, Joanie Sims‐Gould et al.ARTICLEHealth & Social Care in the…2022Referencias: 4

    Most implementation frameworks note that a central support unit (CSU) is key to successful implementation and scale-up of evidence-based interventions (EBIs). However, few studies investigated core functions of CSUs-such as capacity building-to better understand their essential role in implementing EBIs at scale. Therefore, the aims of our study are to (1) describe the role that a CSU plays to build capacity in delivery partner organisations, to …

  • The impact of age and familiarity with the environment on categorical and coordinate spatial relation representations

    Open AccessMaureen C Ashe, Antonella Lopez et al.ARTICLEScandinavian Journal of Psychology2021

    Retrieving spatial information is a crucial everyday ability that is affected by age‐related changes. Previous research has shown that this change is mediated by familiarity with an environment. The present research uses a series of landmark location tasks to extend and deepen our understanding of the role of aging in spatial mental representations of more or less familiar environments, also disentangling the contribution of coordinate and catego…

  • Scaling up Action Schools! BC

    Open AccessLindsay Nettlefold, Patti-Jean Naylor et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Action Schools! BC (AS! BC) was scaled-up from an efficacy trial to province-wide delivery across 11 years (2004-2015). In this study we: (1) describe strategies that supported implementation and scale-up; (2) evaluate implementation (teachers' physical activity (PA) delivery) and student's PA and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) within a cluster randomized controlled trial during years 2 and 3 of scale-up; and (3) assess relationships between tea…

  • It makes me feel not so alone”

    Open AccessTodd Franke, Joanie Sims-Gould et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Health promoting interventions that focus on PA and social connectedness through group-based activities can effectively reduce social isolation and loneliness of older adults. Given the 'epidemic of loneliness' that plagues many countries currently, these kinds of interventions are timely and important. Research that further delineates mechanisms (e.g., sharing experiences vs. lectures), that modify the effect of an intervention on social connect…

  • Re-framing mobility in older adults

    Todd Franke, Thea Franke et al.ARTICLEQualitative Research in Sport and…2020

    Although there is widespread acceptance regarding the importance of mobility in older adults, there have been few attempts to bridge disciplines and move beyond the predominant focus on functional aspects of mobility. In this article, we present an adapted mobility framework with the goal of continued development to acknowledge the subjective and temporal elements of movement in order to comprehensively conceptualize mobility. The adapted framewo…

  • Prevalence and Relationships among Physical Activity Policy, Environment, and Practices in Licensed Childcare Centers from a Manager and Staff Perspective

    Open AccessJennifer McConnell‐Nzunga, Louise C Mâsse et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    Physical activity (PA) is critical to early childhood health and development, and childcare is a key setting for establishing physically active play. In British Columbia (BC), a provincial standard for active play in childcare was enacted, identified here as the Active Play (AP) standard. Pragmatic constraints limit real-world data collection for evaluating policy impact. We explored whether information about policies, practices, and the environm…

  • Interact

    Open AccessYan Kestens, Meghan Winters et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    INTERACT aims to advance the evidence base on population health intervention research and address challenges related to big data, knowledge mobilization and engagement, ethics, and causality. We will collect ~ 100 TB of sensor data from participants over 5 years. We will address these challenges using interdisciplinary partnerships, training of highly qualified personnel, and modern methodologies for using sensor-based data

  • Factors that influence implementation at scale of a community-based health promotion intervention for older adults

    Open AccessJoanie Sims-Gould, Harry Mckay et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    Even relatively simple evidence-based interventions can be challenging to scale-up and sustain. To ensure successful implementation it is essential to align with multilevel socioecological perspectives and assess the vast array of contextual factors that are at the core of better understanding successful implementation

  • It makes your life worthwhile. It gives you a purpose in living’

    Open AccessTodd Franke, Thea Franke et al.ARTICLEAgeing and Society2019Citada por: 5Referencias: 59

    The World Health Organization claims that mobility is vital to healthy ageing and is the best guarantee of older adults being able to cope and remain in their homes and communities. Mobility enables older adults to maintain their physical health, independence and participation in society. In general, mobility is examined objectively, from a quantitative perspective where mobility is measured as physical movement ( e.g. physical activity) and/or t…

  • Implementation of a co-designed physical activity program for older adults

    Open AccessHarry Mckay, Lindsay Nettlefold et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    CTM adopted central tenets of implementation science that consider the complicated systems where interventions are delivered to improve public health. In this iteration of CTM we demonstrate that a partner-based health promotion intervention can be effectively implemented across settings to enhance PA, mobility and social connectedness in older adults

  • Developing a comprehensive measure of mobility

    Open AccessJoseph A Hirsch, Meghan Winters et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    MOVES is a holistic measure of mobility for characterizing older adult mobility across populations. Future work should examine individual or neighborhood predictors of MOVES and its relationship to broader health outcomes. MOVES holds utility for research, surveillance, evaluation, and interventions around the broad factors influencing mobility in older adults

  • A grounded visualization approach to explore sociospatial and temporal complexities of older adults' mobility

    Open AccessTodd Franke, Thea Franke et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2017Citada por: 17Referencias: 53

  • Scaling-up an efficacious school-based physical activity intervention

    Open AccessChris Lonsdale, Taren Sanders et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2016

    Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ( ACTRN12616000731493 ). Date of registration: June 3, 2016

  • A mixed-methods exploration of implementation of a comprehensive school healthy eating model one year after scale-up

    Open AccessPatti-Jean Naylor, Harry Mckay et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2016

    Objective To study the implementation of a school-based healthy eating (HE) model one year after scale-up in British Columbia (BC). Specifically, to examine implementation of Action Schools! BC (AS! BC) and its influence on implementation of classroom HE activities, and to explore factors associated with implementation. Design Diffusion of Innovations, Social Cognitive and Organizational Change theories guided our approach. We used a mixed-method…

  • InterActive Interpreted Interviews (I3)

    Open AccessChau Tong, Catherine Tong et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2016Citada por: 3Referencias: 37

  • Benches become like porches

    Open AccessCallista A Ottoni, Joanie Sims-Gould et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2016Citada por: 35Referencias: 52

  • Enhancing a Somatic Maturity Prediction Model

    Sarah A Moore, Harry Mckay et al.ARTICLEMedicine & Science in Sports &…2015

    PURPOSE: Assessing biological maturity in studies of children is challenging. Sex-specific regression equations developed using anthropometric measures are widely used to predict somatic maturity. However, prediction accuracy was not established in external samples. Thus, we aimed to evaluate the fit of these equations, assess for overfitting (adjusting as necessary), and calibrate using external samples. METHODS: We evaluated potential overfitti…

  • Active Smarter Kids (ASK)

    Open AccessGeir Kåre Resaland, Vegard Fusche Moe et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    Clinicaltrials.gov ID nr: NCT02132494 . Date of registration, 6(th) of May, 2014

  • Older adults’ outdoor walking and the built environment

    Open AccessMeghan Winters, R Barnes et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    Neighbourhood design may be one avenue whereby physical activity levels of older people can be enhanced through outdoor walking, with benefit across socioeconomic strata

  • Therapeutic landscapes and wellbeing in later life

    Open AccessJessica Finlay, Todd Franke et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2015Citada por: 57Referencias: 20