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Heather A. McKay is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with a particular focus on areas including General Health Professions, Physiology, Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The scientist's work centers on topics such as Physical Activity and Health, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Health Policy Implementation Science, Obesity, Physical Activity, and Diet, Children's Physical and Motor Development, Health and Wellbeing Research, and Behavioral Health and Interventions.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Joanie Sims-Gould, Lindsay Nettlefold, Heather Macdonald, Adrian Bauman, and Thea Franke.

Heather A. McKay has published regularly in several notable venues. These include the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, BMC Public Health, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and Journal of Physical Activity and Health.

Some of their recent papers with respective publication years and venues are:

  • "It makes me feel not so alone": features of the Choose to Move physical activity intervention that reduce loneliness in older adults (2021, BMC Public Health)
  • Behaviours that prompt primary school teachers to adopt and implement physically active learning: a meta synthesis of qualitative evidence (2021, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity)
  • Rapidly adapting an effective health promoting intervention for older adults-choose to move-for virtual delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022, BMC Public Health)
  • Physical activity is good for older adults-but is programme implementation being overlooked? A systematic review of intervention studies that reported frameworks or measures of implementation (2020, British Journal of Sports Medicine)
  • Effect of a Scalable School-Based Intervention on Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Children (2021, JAMA Pediatrics)

Best Publications

  • A six-year longitudinal study of the relationship of physical activity to bone mineral accrual in growing children: the university of Saskatchewan bone mineral accrual study.

    D. A. Bailey;H. A. Mckay;R. L. Mirwald;P. R. E. Crocker

  • Maximizing bone mineral mass gain during growth for the prevention of fractures in the adolescents and the elderly

    René Rizzoli;Maria Luisa Bianchi;Michèle Garabédian;Heather A. McKay

  • Implementation of school based physical activity interventions: a systematic review.

    Patti-Jean Naylor;Lindsay Nettlefold;Douglas Race;Christa Hoy

  • Enhancing a Somatic Maturity Prediction Model.

    Sarah A. Moore;Heather A. Mckay;Heather Macdonald;Lindsay Nettlefold

  • School-based physical activity does not compromise children's academic performance

    Yasmin Ahamed;Heather MacDonald;Katherine Reed;Patti-Jean Naylor

  • Calcium accretion in girls and boys during puberty: a longitudinal analysis.

    Donald A. Bailey;Alan D. Martin;Heather A. McKay;Susan Whiting

  • Resistance and agility training reduce fall risk in women aged 75 to 85 with low bone mass: a 6-month randomized, controlled trial.

    Teresa Liu-Ambrose;Karim M Khan;Janice J Eng;Patti A Janssen

  • Is there a critical period for bone response to weight-bearing exercise in children and adolescents? a systematic review

    K J MacKelvie;K M Khan;H A McKay

  • A community-based fitness and mobility exercise program for older adults with chronic stroke : a randomized, controlled trial

    Marco Yiu Chung Pang;Janice J. Eng;Andrew S. Dawson;Heather A. McKay

  • Augmented trochanteric bone mineral density after modified physical education classes: a randomized school-based exercise intervention study in prepubescent and early pubescent children.

    Heather A. McKay;Moira A. Petit;Robert W. Schutz;Jerilynn C. Prior

  • A School-Based Exercise Intervention Elicits Substantial Bone Health Benefits: A 2-Year Randomized Controlled Trial in Girls

    Kerry J. MacKelvie;Karim M. Khan;Karim M. Khan;Moira A. Petit;Patricia A. Janssen

  • Scaling-up an efficacious school-based physical activity intervention: Study protocol for the 'Internet-based Professional Learning to help teachers support Activity in Youth' (iPLAY) cluster randomized controlled trial and scale-up implementation evaluation

    Christopher Sean Lonsdale;Taren Grant Sanders;Kristen E. Cohen;Philip Parker

  • Prevention in the first place: schools a setting for action on physical inactivity

    P J Naylor;Heather A McKay

  • A randomized school-based jumping intervention confers site and maturity-specific benefits on bone structural properties in girls: a hip structural analysis study.

    M. A. Petit;H. A. McKay;K. J. MacKelvie;A. K. Heinonen

  • A school-based exercise intervention augments bone mineral accrual in early pubertal girls.

    Kerry J. MacKelvie;Heather A. McKay;Karim M. Khan;Peter R.E. Crocker

  • Community-based exercise program reduces risk factors for falls in 65- to 75-year-old women with osteoporosis: randomized controlled trial

    Nick D. Carter;Karim M. Khan;Heather A. McKay;Moira A. Petit

  • The challenge of low physical activity during the school day: at recess, lunch and in physical education

    L Nettlefold;H A McKay;D E R Warburton;K A McGuire

  • Bone mass and structure are enhanced following a 2-year randomized controlled trial of exercise in prepubertal boys

    Kerry J MacKelvie;Moira A Petit;Karim M Khan;Thomas J Beck

  • Bone Densitometry in Canadian Children 8–17 Years of Age

    R. A. Faulkner;D. A. Bailey;D. T. Drinkwater;H. A. McKay

  • Growth, physical activity, and bone mineral acquisition.

    Donald A. Bailey;Robert A. Faulkner;Heather A. McKAY

Frequent Co-Authors

Karim M. Khan
Karim M. Khan University of British Columbia
Patti-Jean Naylor
Patti-Jean Naylor University of Victoria
Teresa Liu-Ambrose
Teresa Liu-Ambrose University of British Columbia
Janice J. Eng
Janice J. Eng University of British Columbia
Ari Heinonen
Ari Heinonen University of Jyväskylä
Ryan E. Rhodes
Ryan E. Rhodes University of Victoria
Peter R.E. Crocker
Peter R.E. Crocker University of British Columbia
Stephen R. Lord
Stephen R. Lord University of New South Wales
John D. Wark
John D. Wark University of Melbourne
Adrian Bauman
Adrian Bauman University of Sydney

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