Kaspar Staub

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ID134283
NOMBREKaspar Staub
NOMBRESKaspar
APELLIDOStaub
FIRMASTAUB K
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Zurich
ORCID0000-0002-3951-1807
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS33
TOTAL DE CITAS17
TOTAL COMO AUTOR33
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2011
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H3

  • The decline of child stunting in 122 countries

    Open AccessEric B Schneider, Juliana Jaramillo Echeverri et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    INTRODUCTION: Child stunting, a measure of malnutrition, is a major global health challenge affecting 148.1 million children in 2022. Global stunting rates have declined from 47.2% in 1985 to 22.3% in 2022; however, trends before the mid-1980s are unclear, including whether child stunting was previously prevalent in current high-income countries (HICs). We conducted a systematic review of child growth studies before 1990 to reconstruct historical…

  • Fertility dynamics through historical pandemics and Covid-19 in Switzerland, 1871-2022

    Open AccessKatarina L Matthes, Mathilde Le Vu et al.ARTICLEPopulation Studies2025Referencias: 61

    We follow general fertility rates (GFRs) in Switzerland up to 2022, with a focus on their dynamics during and after pandemics. Historical influenza pandemics (1889-90, 1918-20, 1957) have consistently led to temporary declines in births between six and nine months after the pandemic peak. High rates of miscarriage may explain these findings. After the 1889-90 and 1918-20 pandemics, short-term baby booms occurred. For the recent Covid-19 pandemic,…

  • Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022

    Open AccessNowell H Phelps, Rosie Singleton et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. METHODS: ). For school-aged children and adolescents, we report thinness (BMI 2 SD above the median). FINDINGS: From 1990 to 20…

  • From pandemic to endemic

    Open AccessMarco Bernhard, Corina Leuch et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2023

    In pandemics, past and present, there is no textbook definition of when a pandemic is over, and how and when exactly a respiratory virus transitions from pandemic to endemic spread. In this paper we have compared the 1918/19 influenza pandemic and the subsequent spread of seasonal flu until 1924. We analysed 14,125 reports of newly stated 32,198 influenza-like illnesses from the Swiss canton of Bern. We analysed the temporal and spatial spread at…

  • Letting the Past Speak to the Present (and the Future)

    Kaspar StaubARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2023Referencias: 3

  • How the influenza pandemic 1918/19 affected teacher education and schools in several ways − a case study from Switzerland

    Lukas Boser, Kaspar StaubARTICLEPaedagogica Historica2023

    Outbreaks of respiratory infections have impact on schools. The present article draws upon sources from the school archives of the former teachers' seminary Muristalden in the city of Bern in Switzerland. The aim is to ascertain how the various pandemic waves 1918/1919 affected school operations and the people living at Muristalden. During the summer wave 1918 (Phase A), the summer vacations were extended until end of August 1918 to limit infecti…

  • Selling, buying and eating – a synthesis study on dietary patterns across language regions in Switzerland

    Open AccessKatarina L Matthes, Christine A Zuberbuehler et al.ARTICLEBritish Food Journal2022

    Purpose Cross-cultural studies on differences in eating and consumer behavior have several limitations due to differences between countries, for example, in national health policies. Switzerland combines cultural diversity between the language regions, but with a common national health policy. Therefore, Switzerland provides an ideal framework to investigate cross-cultural eating and consumer behavior. The aim of this study was to combine food co…

  • The role of body height as a co‐factor of excess weight in Switzerland

    Open AccessMarc Rickenbacher, Nejla Gültekin et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2022

    OBJECT: ) is a major health issue worldwide, including in Switzerland. For high-income countries, little attention has been paid to body height in context of excess weight. The aim of this study is to assess the importance of body height as a co-factor for excess weight in multiple large nationwide data sets. DATA AND METHODS: In this comparative study, we included the largest nationwide and population-based studies in the fields of public health…

  • Associations between hydration status, body composition, sociodemographic and lifestyle factors in the general population

    Open AccessTurgut Ekingen, Cynthia Sob et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Sex, age, body composition, and physical activity influence body hydration. There seem to be differences in body water regulation between the sexes. Especially interesting are factors susceptible to preventive measures such as physical activity

  • Health and lifespan of Swiss men born in an alpine region in 1905–1907

    Open AccessElla Ziegler, Erik Postma et al.ARTICLEThe History of the Family2022Referencias: 8

    Body height and body mass index (BMI) are associated with later life outcomes in present and historical populations. We examine the case study of the Swiss Alpine canton of Glarus, which was highly industrialised at the beginning of the 20th century. Our study links conscription registers to genealogical registers at the individual level in Switzerland for the first time. We analyse whether body height, BMI, socioeconomic position (HISCLASS), reg…

  • Life-history tradeoffs in a historical population (1896–1939) undergoing rapid fertility decline

    Open AccessA V Jaeggi, Jordan S Martin et al.ARTICLEEvolutionary Human Sciences2022Citada por: 4Referencias: 52

    Evolutionary demographers often invoke tradeoffs between reproduction and survival to explain reductions in fertility during demographic transitions. The evidence for such tradeoffs in humans has been mixed, partly because tradeoffs may be masked by individual differences in quality or access to resources. Unmasking tradeoffs despite such phenotypic correlations requires sophisticated statistical analyses that account for endogeneity among variab…

  • Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories

    Open AccessAndrea Rodriguez-Martinez, Andrea Rodriguez‐Martinez et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

    BACKGROUND: Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents. METHODS: For this pooled analysis, we used a database of cardiometabolic risk factors collated by the Non-Communicable Disease …

  • Filling the weight gap

    Open AccessFabienne P Trüb, J Wells et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2020

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Open AccessNCD Risk Factor Collaboration, Honor Bixby et al.ARTICLENature2019

    Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1,2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity 3–6 . Here we use 2,009 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in more than 112 million adults, to report national, regional and global trends in mean B…

  • Have Swiss adult males and females stopped growing taller? Evidence from the population-based nutrition survey menuCH, 2014/2015

    Open AccessLinda Vinci, Joël Floris et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2019

    Data from the National Nutrition Survey for adults (menuCH) allow for the assessment of recent trends in measured height by year of birth for adult men and women from a population-based sample. The aim of the present study was to test if - similarly to conscripts and schoolchildren - the Swiss adult population stopped growing taller in recent birth cohorts, and if so, when the change occurred. We found that - when self-reported - height was overe…

  • Water, sanitation and mortality in Swiss towns in the context of urban renewal in the late nineteenth century

    Open AccessJoël Floris, Kaspar StaubARTICLEThe History of the Family2019Citada por: 4Referencias: 6

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  • Wealthier - older - taller

    Joël Floris, François Höpflinger et al.ARTICLESchweizerische Zeitschrift für…2019Citada por: 2Referencias: 2

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  • Influence of network properties on a migration induced secular height trend by Monte Carlo simulation

    Amelie Fritz, Angelina Makeyeva et al.ARTICLEAnthropologischer Anzeiger2019

    Background: Recent research reported height biased migration of taller individuals and a Monte Carlo simulation showed that such preferential migration of taller individuals into network hubs can induce a secular trend of height. In the simulation model taller agents in the hubs raise the overall height of all individuals in the network by a community effect. However, it could be seen that the actual network structure influences the strength of t…

  • Ladies first

    Open AccessNikola Koepke, Joël Floris et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2018

  • Secular trends in stature of late 20th century white South Africans and two European populations

    Open AccessJolandie Myburgh, Kaspar Staub et al.ARTICLEHOMO2017

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016

    Open AccessLeandra Abarca-Gómez, Ziad Abdeen et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017

    BACKGROUND: Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare trends with those of adults. METHODS: We pooled 2416 population-based studies with measurements of height…

  • A tall order

    Open AccessRadoslaw Panczak, André Moser et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2017

  • Temporal trends, regional variation and socio-economic differences in height, BMI and body proportions among German conscripts, 1956–2010

    Open AccessAndreas Lehmann, Joël Floris et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2017

    Objective We analyse temporal trends and regional variation among the most recent available anthropometric data from German conscription in the years 2008–2010 and their historical contextualization since 1956. Design/setting/subjects The overall sample included German conscripts ( N 13 857 313) from 1956 to 2010. Results German conscripts changed from growing in height to growing in breadth. Over the analysed 54 years, average height of 19-year-…

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    Open AccessJames Bentham, NCD Risk Factor Collaboration et al.ARTICLEeLife2016

    Being taller is associated with enhanced longevity, and higher education and earnings. We reanalysed 1472 population-based studies, with measurement of height on more than 18.6 million participants to estimate mean height for people born between 1896 and 1996 in 200 countries. The largest gain in adult height over the past century has occurred in South Korean women and Iranian men, who became 20.2 cm (95% credible interval 17.5–22.7) and 16.5 cm …

  • Body height of mummified pharaohs supports historical suggestions of sibling marriages

    Open AccessMichael E Habicht, M Henneberg et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2015Citada por: 1Referencias: 19

    Body height is an important factor in reconstructing health conditions and it serves as an indicator of socio‐economic status. Researchers rely on ancient data to analyze evolutionary aspects of human health and its interrelation with environmental influences. This study presents body height estimates from all periods of ancient Egyptian history and compares the general population with the existing mummies of the members of royal families. A samp…