ZORA Publication List

Publications

• 2025

  • Journal Article

    • Haag, N., Le Vu, M., Jaeggi, A. V., Baud, D., Desseauve, D., Haeusler, M., Staub, K., & Matthes, K. L. (2025). Association between a mismatch of maternal/neonatal body size and obstetrical interventions in Switzerland in the 1920s: a cross-sectional study Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift, 155(11), 4546. https://doi.org/10.57187/s.4546
    • Le Vu, M., Matthes, K. L., Schneider, E. B., Moerlen, A., Hösli, I., Baud, D., & Staub, K. (2025). Maternal Influenza-Like Illness and Neonatal Health During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in a Swiss City Annals of Internal Medicine, online. https://doi.org/10.7326/annals-24-03796
    • Radivojevic, N., Puhan, M., Staub, K., & Ballouz, T. (2025). Reconstruction of the Discourse on Influenza During Pandemics Between 1889 and 1980 in the Predecessor Journal of Swiss Medical Weekly - A Narrative Review and Bibliometric Analysis Public Health Reviews, 46, 1608522. https://doi.org/10.3389/phrs.2025.1608522
    • Gubelmann, C., Stanga, Z., Staub, K., & Marques-Vidal, P. (2025). Impact of obesity and physical fitness on hypertension: a mediation analysis including over 380 000 Swiss young male conscripts from 2007 to 2022 BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 11(4), e002455. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2025-002455
    • Urban, Christian; Vrancken, Bram; Patrono, Livia V; Düx, Ariane; Le Vu, Mathilde; Matthes, Katarina L; Burkhard-Koren, Nina Maria; Widulin, Navena; Schnalke, Thomas; Carraro, Sabina; Rühli, Frank; Lemey, Philippe; Staub, Kaspar; Calvignac-Spencer, Sébastien; Schuenemann, Verena J (2025). An ancient influenza genome from Switzerland allows deeper insights into host adaptation during the 1918 flu pandemic in Europe BMC Biology, 23(1):179.
    • Matthes, K. L., Le Vu, M., & Staub, K. (2025). Fertility dynamics through historical pandemics and COVID-19 in Switzerland, 1871–2022 Population Studies, Epub ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2025.2462291
    • Matthes, Katarina L; Staub, Kaspar (2025). Is height loss in adulthood associated with health in later life among the 1946 UK Birth Cohort (NSHD) participants?
    • Ziegler, Ella; Matthes, Katarina L; Middelkamp, Peter W; Schünemann, Verena; Althaus, Christian L; Rühli, Frank; Staub, Kaspar (2025). Retrospective modelling of the disease and mortality burden of the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic in Zurich, Switzerland Epidemics, 50:100813.

  • Book Section

    • Floris, J., & Staub, K. (2025). Measuring Food Requirements and Deprivation In M. Cox & C. Morelon (Eds.), Hunger Redraws the Map. Food, State, and Society in the Era of the First World War (pp. 280–318). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009441278.011

  • Conference or Workshop item

    • Braggion, A., Chiolero, A., Fahr, A., & Staub, K. (2025). Benefits and challenges of communicating long-term data in public health, SSPH+ Workshop - Final Report Benefits and challenges of communicating long- term data in public health. SSPH+ workshop, Bern. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16961076

• 2024

  • Journal Article

    • Skrivankova, Veronika W; Schreck, Leonie D; Berlin, Claudia; Panczak, Radoslaw; Staub, Kaspar; Zwahlen, Marcel; Schulzke, Sven M; Egger, Matthias; Kuehni, Claudia E (2024). Sociodemographic and regional differences in neonatal and infant mortality in Switzerland in 2011–2018: the Swiss National Cohort Swiss Medical Weekly, 154(11):3682.
    • Suter, Jocelyne; Devos, Isabelle; Matthes, Katarina L; Staub, Kaspar (2024). The health and demographic impacts of the “Russian flu” pandemic in Switzerland in 1889/1890 and in the years thereafter Epidemiology and Infection, 152:e174.
    • Boser, Lukas; Staub, Kaspar (2024). How the influenza pandemic 1918/19 affected teacher education and schools in several ways − a case study from Switzerland Paedagogica Historica, 60(6):1047-1064.
    • Matthes, Katarina L; Floris, Joël; Merzouki, Aziza; Junker, Christoph; Weitkunat, Rolf; Rühli, Frank; Keiser, Olivia; Staub, Kaspar (2024). Spatial pattern of all cause excess mortality in Swiss districts during the pandemic years 1890, 1918 and 2020 Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 51:100697.
    • Staub, Kaspar; Ballouz, Tala; Puhan, Milo (2024). An Unwanted but Long-Known Company: Post-Viral Symptoms in the Context of Past Pandemics in Switzerland (and Beyond) Public Health Reviews, 45:1606966..
    • Le Vu, Mathilde; Matthes, Katarina L; Brabec, Marek; Riou, Julien; Skrivankova, Veronika W; Hösli, Irene; Rohrmann, Sabine; Staub, Kaspar (2024). Health of singleton neonates in Switzerland through time and crises: a cross-sectional study at the population level, 2007-2022 BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 24(1):218.
    • Gubelmann, Cédric; Stanga, Zeno; Staub, Kaspar; Marques-Vidal, Pedro (2024). Trends of physical fitness related to weight status: An analysis including over 412,000 Swiss young male conscripts from 2007 to 2022 Preventive Medicine Reports, 38:102591.
    • Matthes, Katarina L; Staub, Kaspar (2024). The Need to Analyse Historical Mortality Data to Understand the Causes of Today’s Health Inequalities International Journal of Public Health, 69:1607739.

  • Conference or Workshop item

    • Weber, Wibke; Wyss, Valery; Högger, Felicitas; Schäfer, Louis; Floris, Joel; Staub, Kaspar (2024). From Past Pandemics to Future Health Crises: A Systematic Design Framework for Building a Healthier Future In: DTRS14 The role of design in shaping sustainable futures, Eskilstuna, Sweden, 11 June 2024 - 13 June 2024. Mälardalens universitet, 383-395.

  • Scientific Publication in Electronic Form

    • Staub, Kaspar (2024). Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses – Recognised in the 1940s, but then forgotten?

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