Publications

ZORA Publication List

Publications

• 2025

  • Journal Article

    • Matthes, Katarina L; Le Vu, Mathilde; Staub, Kaspar (2025). Fertility dynamics through historical pandemics and COVID-19 in Switzerland, 1871–2022. Population Studies:Epub ahead of print.
    • 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?. Aging and Health Research, 5(1):100224.
    • 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.

• 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Le Vu, Mathilde; Cortina‐Borja, Mario; Wells, Jonathan C K (2024). Evaluating the Concept of Brain Sparing in a High Income Setting, Using Historical Records of Maternal Influenza or Syphilis Infection. American Journal of Human Biology, 36(11):e24143.
    • 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?. https://smw.ch: SMW Supporting Association.

• 2023

  • Journal Article

    • Sedlakova, Jana; Daniore, Paola; Horn Wintsch, Andrea; Wolf, Markus; Stanikić, Mina; Haag, Christina; Sieber, Chloé; Schneider, Gerold; Staub, Kaspar; Ettlin, Dominik Alois; Grübner, Oliver; Rinaldi, Fabio; von Wyl, Viktor (2023). Challenges and best practices for digital unstructured data enrichment in health research: A systematic narrative review. PLOS Digital Health, 2(10):e0000347.
    • Staub, Kaspar (2023). Letting the Past Speak to the Present (and the Future). American Journal of Public Health, 113(10):1040-1042.
    • Guarnieri Lopez, Manuel; Matthes, Katarina L; Sob, Cynthia; Bender, Nicole; Staub, Kaspar (2023). Associations between 3D surface scanner derived anthropometric measurements and body composition in a cross-sectional study. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 77(10):972-981.
    • Salvisberg, Vivienne; Le Vu, Mathilde; Floris, Joël; Matthes, Katarina L; Staub, Kaspar (2023). Health of neonates born in the maternity hospital in Bern, Switzerland, 1880–1900 and 1914–1922. PLoS ONE, 18(8):e0289157.
    • Bernhard, Marco; Leuch, Corina; Kordi, Maryam; Gruebner, Oliver; Matthes, Katarina L; Floris, Joël; Staub, Kaspar (2023). From pandemic to endemic: Spatial-temporal patterns of influenza-like illness incidence in a Swiss canton, 1918-1924. Economics and Human Biology, 50:101271.
    • Floris, Joël; Matthes, Katarina L; Le Vu, Mathilde; Staub, Kaspar (2023). Intergenerational transmission of height in a historical population: from taller mothers to larger offspring at birth (and as adults). PNAS Nexus, 2(6):pgad208.

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