Jakob Zinsstag

Biographic Data

ID196245
NAMEJakob Zinsstag
GIVEN NAMESJakob
FAMILY NAMEZinsstag
SIGNATUREZINSSTAG J
AFFILIATIONSSwiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
ORCID0000-0002-8899-6097
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Does One Health need an ontological turn

    Open AccessAndrea Kaiser-Grolimund, Salome A Bukachi et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2025

    One Health has gained global prominence in recent years. Alongside its emergence, there have been extensive social science critiques. In this contribution, we make the case for the value of recent theoretical discussions in the field of anthropology - sometimes referred to as an 'ontological turn'. We argue that taking theory seriously benefits One Health as an integrated approach that has interdisciplinary collaborations at its heart, but which …

  • Relationship between animal health and livestock farmers’ wellbeing in Ghana

    Open AccessFrancis Sena Nuvey, Daniel T Haydon et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Disease-induced livestock mortalities have a significant negative effect on farmers' wellbeing, particularly in the physical and psychological domains. This suggests that veterinary service policies addressing disease risks in livestock, could contribute to improving the wellbeing of livestock dependent populations, and public food security

  • It is difficult for us to treat their pain”. Health professionals’ perceptions of Somali pastoralists in the context of pain management

    Open AccessEleonore Baum, Sied Abdi et al.ARTICLEMedical Humanities2023References: 6

    Pain is one of the most neglected areas of care in sub-Saharan Africa. Access to adequate pain management is important, especially in marginalised populations, such as pastoralists. Little is known about health professionals' perceptions of pain-related care for Somali pastoralists. This study seeks to understand health professionals' perceptions of Somali pastoralists in the context of pain management in Eastern Ethiopia. Within the scope of thi…

  • System Thinking and Citizen Participation Is Still Missing in One Health Initiatives – Lessons From Fifteen Evaluations

    Open AccessMartin Hitziger, John Berezowski et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Tackling complex public health challenges requires integrated approaches to health, such as One Health (OH). A key element of these approaches is the integration of knowledge across sectors, disciplines and stakeholders. It is not yet clear which elements of knowledge integration need endorsement to achieve best outcomes. This paper assesses 15 OH initiatives in 16 African, Asian and European countries to identify opportunities to improve knowled…

  • International, Transdisciplinary, and Ecohealth Action for Sustainable Agriculture in Asia

    Open AccessHung Nguyen‐Viet, Hung Nguyen-Viet et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Sustainably intensifying agriculture to secure food for people, while minimizing the human, animal, and environmental health impacts is an unprecedented global food security challenge. Action research is needed to understand and mitigate impacts, with Ecosystem approaches to health (Ecohealth) emerging as a promising framework to support such efforts. Yet, few have critically examined the application of Ecohealth principles in an agricultural con…

  • Nutritional status and intestinal parasites among young children from pastoralist communities of the Ethiopian Somali region

    Open AccessKadra Ali Osman, Jakob Zinsstag et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2020

    Pastoralist children in the Ethiopian Somali Regional State (ESRS) are at high risk for undernutrition and intestinal parasitic infections (IPIs). We assessed the nutritional status and its association with IPIs in 500 children -1 (8.2, 10.9), 6.2 μg L -1 (4.0, 10.2), and 0.8 μmol L -1 (0.67, 0.91), respectively. Prevalence of anaemia, iron, and vitamin A deficiency was 75, 91, and 30%, respectively. IPIs' prevalence was 47%; the most prevalent I…

  • A One Health Research Framework for Animal-Assisted Interventions

    Open AccessKarin Hediger, Andrea Meisser et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019

    Our paper shows that a One Health study design is necessary to ensure that a tradeoff in health of animals is prevented and that an added value, or synergistic benefit, can be achieved on both sides during animal-assisted interventions

  • The good, the bad and the ugly

    Open AccessNicolas Antoine-Moussiaux, Luc Janssens de Bisthoven et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2019Cited by: 1References: 12

  • Vaccine hesitancy among mobile pastoralists in Chad

    Open AccessMahamat Fayiz Abakar, Djimet Seli et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2018

    Mobile pastoralist communities face specific demand side barriers to vaccination. Understanding these barriers is essential to reduce vaccine hesitancy and increase vaccination uptake. Local health systems must plan for the periodic presence of pastoralist communities in their zones of responsibility and create more mutual trust

  • Hot Topics in Ecohealth Research

    Open AccessJakob ZinsstagARTICLEEcoHealth2017

  • One Health

    Open AccessJakob ZinsstagARTICLEEcoHealth2016

  • Exemplary Transdisciplinary Projects ‐ swiss-academies award for transdisciplinary research 2015

    Jakob Zinsstag, Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello et al.ARTICLEGAIA - Ecological Perspectives…2016

    The Network for Transdisciplinary Research (td-net) of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences seeks to foster transdisciplinary research and showcase new approaches addressing topics of societal relevance and impact. The Jury honours the awardees and encourages them to go on contributing to the maturation of their fields

  • Transdisciplinary Research on Cancer-Healing Systems Between Biomedicine and the Maya of Guatemala

    Open AccessMónica Berger-González, Michael Stauffacher et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2016Cited by: 8References: 28

    Transdisciplinarity (TD) is a participatory research approach in which actors from science and society work closely together. It offers means for promoting knowledge integration and finding solutions to complex societal problems, and can be applied within a multiplicity of epistemic systems. We conducted a TD process from 2011 to 2014 between indigenous Mayan medical specialists from Guatemala and Western biomedical physicians and scientists to s…

  • The use of mobile phones for demographic surveillance of mobile pastoralists and their animals in Chad

    Open AccessVreni Jean-Richard, Larry Crump et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2014

    BACKGROUND: Demographic information is foundational for the planning and management of social programmes, in particular health services. The existing INDEPTH network surveillance sites are limited to coverage of sedentary populations. Including mobile populations in this approach would be expensive, time consuming and possibly low in accuracy. Very little is known about the demography of mobile pastoralists and their animals, so innovative approa…

  • A Scientist’s Dilemma in Wartime

    Open AccessJakob ZinsstagARTICLEEcoHealth2014

  • Representative Seroprevalences of Human and Livestock Brucellosis in Two Mongolian Provinces

    Open AccessBaljinnyam Zolzaya, Zolzaya Baljinnyam et al.ARTICLEEcoHealth2014

    Mongolia implemented a brucellosis livestock mass vaccination campaign from 2000 to 2009. However, the number of human cases did not decline since 2004 and the current epidemiological situation in Mongolia was uncertain. The objective of this study was to estimate the representative seroprevalences of humans and livestock in two provinces in view of their comparison with officially reported data. A representative cross-sectional study using clust…

  • Diarrhoeal diseases among adult population in an agricultural community Hanam province, Vietnam, with high wastewater and excreta re-use

    Open AccessPhuc Pham-Duc, Hung Nguyen‐Viet et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014

    Our study shows that professional exposure to wastewater and excreta during agricultural activities are significantly contributing to the risk of diarrhoea in adults. The highest attributable fractions were obtained for direct contact with Nhue River and local ponds, handling practices of human and animal excreta as fertilisers, lack of protective measures while working and poor personal hygiene practices, and unsafe food and water consumption we…

  • Best Practice in Transdisciplinary Research – Swiss td-award Winners 2013

    Jakob Zinsstag, Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello et al.ARTICLEGAIA - Ecological Perspectives…2014

    Transdisciplinary research plays an increasing role in topics of societal relevance and impact. The td-net of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences awards innovative transdisciplinary research every other year. The last td-award was given in 2013. This special focus of GAIA features the six prize-winning projects, presenting short summaries of their work. Explaining its selection in the following introduction, the Jury of the td-net honours th…

  • Representative Seroprevalences of Brucellosis in Humans and Livestock in Kyrgyzstan

    Open AccessBassirou Bonfoh, Joldoshbek Kasymbekov et al.ARTICLEEcoHealth2012

    Kyrgyzstan reported 77.5 new human brucellosis cases per 100,000 people in 2007, which is one of the highest incidences worldwide. In Kyrgyzstan, the currently used diagnostic tests in humans and animals are the Rose Bengal Test and the Huddleson test. A national representative cross-sectional study using cluster sampling proportional to size in humans, cattle, sheep, and goats was undertaken to assess the apparent seroprevalence in humans and an…

  • A One Health Framework for Estimating the Economic Costs of Zoonotic Diseases on Society

    Open AccessClare Narrod, Jakob Zinsstag et al.ARTICLEEcoHealth2012

    This article presents an integrated epidemiological and economic framework for assessing zoonoses using a "one health" concept. The framework allows for an understanding of the cross-sector economic impact of zoonoses using modified risk analysis and detailing a range of analytical tools. The goal of the framework is to link the analysis outputs of animal and human disease transmission models, economic impact models and evaluation of risk managem…

  • Mainstreaming One Health

    Open AccessJakob Zinsstag, J S Mackenzie et al.ARTICLEEcoHealth2012

    The term ‘One Medicine ’ was coined by Schwabe (1984) and focuses attention on the commonality of human and animal health. The underlying concept is traceable to the late nineteenth century, in contributions of the German pathologist and architect of social medicine Rudolf Vir-chow (Saunders 2000; Zinsstag and Weiss 2001). Schwabe states that there is no difference in paradigm between hu-man and veterinary medicine and that both medicines have th…

  • Zoonotic Transmission of Tuberculosis Between Pastoralists and Their Livestock in South-East Ethiopia

    Open AccessBalako Gumi, Esther Schelling et al.ARTICLEEcoHealth2012

    Despite huge global efforts in tuberculosis (TB) control, pastoral areas remain under-investigated. During two years sputum and fine needle aspirate (FNA) specimens were collected from 260 Ethiopian pastoralists of Oromia and Somali Regional States with suspected pulmonary TB and from 32 cases with suspected TB lymphadenitis. In parallel, 207 suspected tuberculous lesions were collected from cattle, camels and goats at abattoirs. All specimens we…

  • Quantification of Diarrhea Risk Related to Wastewater Contact in Thailand

    Open AccessAleix Ferrer, Hung Nguyen‐Viet et al.ARTICLEEcoHealth2012

  • Retinol Assessment Among Women and Children in Sahelian Mobile Pastoralists

    Open AccessM Béchir, Esther Schelling et al.ARTICLEEcoHealth2012

    Micronutrient deficiencies are widespread in developing countries, particularly in remote communities such as mobile pastoralists. The nutritional and vitamin A status of this population is not well-documented in Chad. This study assessed serum retinol levels among women and children under five-year-old in nomadic and semi-nomadic pastoralist and rural-settled communities, who are similarly exposed to risk factors such as gastrointestinal parasit…

  • Parasitic Infections, Anemia and Malnutrition Among Rural Settled and Mobile Pastoralist Mothers and Their Children in Chad

    Open AccessM Béchir, Esther Schelling et al.ARTICLEEcoHealth2012

    Malnutrition, resulting from various etiologies, is common in rural Chadian women and children. This cross-sectional study assessed the spectrum of parasitic infection and level of anemia and their effect on nutritional status in settled and mobile pastoral mothers and children near Lake Chad. Intestinal parasites were evaluated using direct fecal smears and the Kato-Katz technique. Malaria status was determined using Paracheck-Pf(®) rapid diagno…