Heather A Mckay
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3830906 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Heather A Mckay |
| PRENOMES | Heather A |
| SOBRENOME | Mckay |
| ASSINATURA | MCKAY H A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Center for Hip Health and Mobility University of British Columbia Vancouver British Columbia Canada |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Building readiness in community-based organisations to enable the implementation of public health interventions for adults and older adults
Open Science Framework, May 5, 2024
Rapidly adapting an effective health promoting intervention for older adults—choose to move—for virtual delivery during the Covid-19 pandemic
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
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 …
It makes me feel not so alone”
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…
Prevalence and Relationships among Physical Activity Policy, Environment, and Practices in Licensed Childcare Centers from a Manager and Staff Perspective
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…
Factors that influence implementation at scale of a community-based health promotion intervention for older adults
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
Developing a comprehensive measure of mobility
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 mixed-methods exploration of implementation of a comprehensive school healthy eating model one year after scale-up
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…
Benches become like porches
Implementation of school based physical activity interventions
Enhancing a Somatic Maturity Prediction Model
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)
Clinicaltrials.gov ID nr: NCT02132494 . Date of registration, 6(th) of May, 2014
Sustained impact of community-based physical activity interventions
To sustain and maximize the impact of community-based public health interventions we propose the integration of elements from three domains of research that acknowledge the interplay between social, environmental and poilitical systems of influence. We emphasize that a number of key factors determine whether evidence from public health interventions in school and built environment settings is applied in practice and policy sectors. These include …
Action Schools! BC — Healthy Eating
The influence of dance training on growth and maturation of young females
Results suggest that moderate-high levels of dance training do not affect linear growth and maturation. Thus, girls should not be discouraged from dance participation on the basis of potential growth delays
Predicting physical activity intention and behaviour among children in a longitudinal sample
The Effect of Water Fluoridation on the Bone Mineral Density of Young Women
Sabbath and Synagogue
Sabbath worship as a communal event does not feature in the Hebrew Bible. In the context of the first century AD, according to Philo and Josephus, the sabbath gatherings took place only for the purpose of studying the law, and not for the liturgical recital of psalms or prayer. Classical authors depict Jews spending the sabbath at home. Jewish inscriptions provide no evidence of sabbath-worship in prayer-houses (proseuchai), while the Mishnah pre…
Sabbath and Synagogue
Sabbath worship as a communal event does not feature in the Hebrew Bible. In the context of the first century AD, according to Philo and Josephus, the sabbath gatherings took place only for the purpose of studying the law, and not for the liturgical recital of psalms or prayer. Classical authors depict Jews spending the sabbath at home. Jewish inscriptions provide no evidence of sabbath-worship in prayer-houses (proseuchai), while the Mishnah pre…
The Effect of Water Fluoridation on the Bone Mineral Density of Young Women
The influence of dance training on growth and maturation of young females
Results suggest that moderate-high levels of dance training do not affect linear growth and maturation. Thus, girls should not be discouraged from dance participation on the basis of potential growth delays
Predicting physical activity intention and behaviour among children in a longitudinal sample
Action Schools! BC — Healthy Eating
Sustained impact of community-based physical activity interventions
To sustain and maximize the impact of community-based public health interventions we propose the integration of elements from three domains of research that acknowledge the interplay between social, environmental and poilitical systems of influence. We emphasize that a number of key factors determine whether evidence from public health interventions in school and built environment settings is applied in practice and policy sectors. These include …
Implementation of school based physical activity interventions
Enhancing a Somatic Maturity Prediction Model
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)
Clinicaltrials.gov ID nr: NCT02132494 . Date of registration, 6(th) of May, 2014
A mixed-methods exploration of implementation of a comprehensive school healthy eating model one year after scale-up
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…
Benches become like porches
Developing a comprehensive measure of mobility
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
Factors that influence implementation at scale of a community-based health promotion intervention for older adults
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
Prevalence and Relationships among Physical Activity Policy, Environment, and Practices in Licensed Childcare Centers from a Manager and Staff Perspective
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…
It makes me feel not so alone”
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…
Rapidly adapting an effective health promoting intervention for older adults—choose to move—for virtual delivery during the Covid-19 pandemic
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
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 …
Building readiness in community-based organisations to enable the implementation of public health interventions for adults and older adults
Open Science Framework, May 5, 2024
Medicine (13 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Gerontology (7 obras) · Nursing (7 obras) · Public health (7 obras) · Biostatistics (6 obras) · Intervention (counseling (6 obras) · Physical Activity and Health (5 obras) · Psychological intervention (5 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (4 obras)