Lisa Sattenspiel
Biographic Data
| ID | 78378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Sattenspiel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Sattenspiel |
| SIGNATURE | SATTENSPIEL L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4534-3392 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 165 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Pandemic Patterns: The Long‐Term Health Outcomes of 1918 Influenza Survivors in the St. John's General Hospital of Newfoundland and Labrador
Archival Research on Human Health and Demography
Archival materials are an important resource for biological anthropologists, providing high-quality data to address a variety of research questions. Archives often contain both quantitative and qualitative data, offering a multidimensional view of population structure, disease dynamics, and evolutionary processes. Major types of archival data include vital statistics, census data, church records, and government or institutional data. This review …
Body Size and Risk of Death During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Alaska
In the aftermath of the 2009 H1N1 influenza A pandemic, research revealed the relationship between body size and the severity of influenza outcomes. However, there is little data available on body size in historical populations; therefore, the relationship between body size and 1918 influenza pandemic outcomes is virtually unknown. Alaskan death records from the Alaska Bureau of Vital Statistics with recorded height and mass at death ( n = 2724) …
I Would Advise That It Be Kept from the Schools at All Cost: The Influenza of 1918-1920 at Nonreservation Indian Boarding Schools
In this article, the authors investigate the 1918-20 influenza pandemic in the federal government's nonreservation Indian boarding schools. Nonreservation boarding schools, which served approximately 6,200 Indigenous youths in 1919, provide a particularly fruitful terrain for analysis due to the detailed records, reports, and correspondence they shared with the Indian Office before, during, and after the pandemic. This rich source base offers a r…
Comparative analysis of Covid-19 diagnoses and mortality among hospitalized indigenous and non-indigenous populations in Chile: 2020–2021
Although Indigenous populations initially showed lower odds of COVID-19 diagnosis and mortality, a marked rise in diagnosis odds among these groups in 2021 underscores the urgency of targeted interventions. The observed negative association between the proportion of Indigenous populations and vaccination rates further underscores the necessity to tackle vaccine access barriers and work towards equitable distribution
The Impact of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on the Demography of the Island of Newfoundland in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
The early twentieth century was a time of dramatic social, economic, political, demographic, and health-related change in Newfoundland and Labrador. One of the major upheavals at this time was the 1918 influenza pandemic, which led to the deaths of nearly 2,000 residents of the Dominion. In this paper we examine the short- and long-term demographic consequences of this catastrophic event. We focus on changes in the overall age and sex distributio…
“We didn't get much schooling because we were fishing all the time”: Potential impacts of irregular school attendance on the spread of epidemics
OBJECTIVES: Especially in traditional, rural, and low-income areas, children attend school irregularly. School-based interventions are common mitigation strategies for infectious disease epidemics, but if daily attendance is not the norm, the impact of schools on disease spread might be overestimated. METHODS: We use an agent-based model of an early 20th century Newfoundland community to compare epidemic size and duration in three scenarios: (1) …
The 1918 influenza pandemic did not accelerate tuberculosis mortality decline in early‐20th century Newfoundland: Investigating historical and social explanations
OBJECTIVES: The selective mortality hypothesis of tuberculosis after the 1918 influenza pandemic, laid out by Noymer and colleagues, suggests that acute exposure or pre-existing infection with tuberculosis (TB) increased the probability of pneumonia and influenza (P&I) mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic, leading to a hastened decline of TB mortality in post-pandemic years. This study describes cultural determinants of the post-pandemic …
Sex‐ and age‐based differences in mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic on the island of Newfoundland
OBJECTIVES: Our aim was to understand sex- and age-based differences in mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic on the island of Newfoundland. The pandemic's impact on different age groups has been the focus of other research, but sex-based differences in mortality are rarely considered. Aspects of social organization, labor patterns, and social behaviors that contribute to mortality between males and females at all ages are used to explain …
The second epidemiologic transition on the brink: What we can learn from the island of Newfoundland during the early 20th century
OBJECTIVES: We aim to understand how the second epidemiologic transition unfolded on the island of Newfoundland during the early 20th century. The focus is on changes in predominant causes of mortality throughout this period, urban and rural differences, and comparisons with other Western nations. We explore factors driving these patterns including the economy, nutrition, sanitation, and access to healthcare and discuss their relevance to underst…
Influenza-Associated Mortality during the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic in Alaska and Labrador: A Comparison
Some of the most severely affected communities in the world during the 1918-19 influenza pandemic were in Labrador and Alaska. Although these two regions are on the opposite ends of North America, a cultural continuum in the Inuit populations extends throughout the North American Arctic. Both regions contain other population groups, however, and because of these similarities and differences, a comparison of their experiences during the pandemic p…
Influenza-Associated Mortality during the 1918–1919 Influenza Pandemic in Alaska and Labrador: A Comparison
Some of the most severely affected communities in the world during the 1918–19 influenza pandemic were in Labrador and Alaska. Although these two regions are on the opposite ends of North America, a cultural continuum in the Inuit populations extends throughout the North American Arctic. Both regions contain other population groups, however, and because of these similarities and differences, a comparison of their experiences during the pandemic p…
The Epidemiology of Human Disease
This comprehensive introduction to the field of human biology covers all the major areas of the field: genetic variation, variation related to climate, infectious and non-infectious diseases, aging, growth, nutrition, and demography. Written by four expert authors working in close collaboration, this second edition has been thoroughly updated to provide undergraduate and graduate students with two new chapters: one on race and culture and their t…
Cocirculating Epidemics, Chronic Health Problems, and Social Conditions in Early 20th Century Labrador and Alaska
Analyses of mortality in Alaska and Labrador during the 1918 influenza pandemic indicate that influenza itself was only one of several factors influencing mortality in different communities. We discuss the added impact of exposure to influenza prior to the major waves of the pandemic in 1918 and cocirculation of other acute infectious diseases, including pneumonia, smallpox, and measles; chronic conditions such as nutritional deficiencies and tub…
Agent‐based modeling of the spread of the 1918–1919 flu in three Canadian fur trading communities
Objectives: Previous attempts to study the 1918–1919 flu in three small communities in central Manitoba have used both three‐community population‐based and single‐community agent‐based models. These studies identified critical factors influencing epidemic spread, but they also left important questions unanswered. The objective of this project was to design a more realistic agent‐based model that would overcome limitations of earlier models and pr…
Gleaning signals about the past from cemetery data
Cemetery headstones provide an easily accessible source of demographic data in human populations. In common with other sources of demographic data, such as skeletal samples, cemetery data may not be representative of the populations from which they were derived. In some circumstances they can be reasonably representative, however, and in such cases they may provide signals about demographic changes in the population that contributed to the cemete…
The design and use of an agent‐based model to simulate the 1918 influenza epidemic at Norway House, Manitoba
Agent‐based modeling provides a new approach to the study of virgin soil epidemics like the 1918 flu. In this bottom‐up simulation approach, a landscape can be created and populated with a heterogeneous group of agents who move and interact in ways that more closely resemble human behavior than is usually seen in other modeling techniques. In this project, an agent‐based model was constructed to simulate the spread of the 1918 influenza pandemic …
Social contexts, syndemics, and infectious disease in northern Aboriginal populations
Until the last half of the 20th century, infectious diseases dominated the health profile of northern North American Aboriginal communities. Research on the 1918 influenza pandemic exemplifies some of the ways in which the social context of European contact and ensuing economic developments affected the nature of infectious disease ecology as well as the frequency and severity of the problem. To understand these impacts it is necessary to conside…
Modeling the influence of settlement structure on the spread of influenza among communities
Several factors play critical roles in the geographic spread of infectious diseases, including the movement of people between communities and the social and economic structure of groups of communities. A mathematical model has been developed to examine the individual and shared impact of these factors. This model was applied to the spread of the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic in three Aboriginal communities in central Canada. Previously published r…
Tropical environments, human activities, and the transmission of infectious diseases
Throughout recent history, the tropical regions of the world have been affected more severely by infectious diseases than the temperate world. Much of the success of infectious diseases in that region is due to both biological and environmental factors that encourage high levels of biodiversity in hosts, vectors, and pathogens, and social factors that compromise efforts to control diseases. Several of these factors are described. Discussion then …
Biological invasions: Theory and practice
Biological invasions: Theory and practice
Yellow fever, black goddess: The coevolution of people and plagues.
By Christopher Wills. New York: Addison Wesley. 1996. 324 pp. ISBN 0-201-44235-3. $24.00 (cloth). © 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Yellow fever, black goddess: The coevolution of people and plagues
By Christopher Wills. New York: Addison Wesley. 1996. 324 pp. ISBN 0-201-44235-3. $24.00 (cloth). © 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc
Environmental context, social interactions, and the spread of HIV
The spread of HIV through a population is influenced by many factors. These include the frequency and type of sexual activity, age distribution of the population, use of intravenous drugs and behaviors associated with their use, the pattern of infectivity of the virus during the several stages of the infection, geographic location, and the patterns of interaction among individuals and the context in which those interactions occur. A number of que…
Stable Populations and Skeletal Age
A common procedure in paleodemography is to use mean skeletal age to estimate the expectation of life at birth in a population. This paper shows that skeletal age and expectation of life at birth are not equivalent unless the population is stationary. This assumption is not justified for most real populations. We show that mean skeletal age is approximately equivalent to the reciprocal of the birth rate and is not correlated with the death rate. …
Explaining Biased Sex Ratios in Human Populations: A Critique of Recent Studies [and Comments and Reply]
The 1918 influenza pandemic did not accelerate tuberculosis mortality decline in early‐20th century Newfoundland: Investigating historical and social explanations
OBJECTIVES: The selective mortality hypothesis of tuberculosis after the 1918 influenza pandemic, laid out by Noymer and colleagues, suggests that acute exposure or pre-existing infection with tuberculosis (TB) increased the probability of pneumonia and influenza (P&I) mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic, leading to a hastened decline of TB mortality in post-pandemic years. This study describes cultural determinants of the post-pandemic …
The effects of population structure on the spread of the HIV infection
A model for the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in a population of male homosexuals is presented. The population is divided into five groups on the basis of degree of sexual activity. Within each group, the individuals are classified as (1) susceptible; (2) infective; or (3) removed because of a lack of sexual activity associated with advanced acquired immunodeficiency disease (AIDS). The infective individuals are further subdivided …
Gleaning signals about the past from cemetery data
Cemetery headstones provide an easily accessible source of demographic data in human populations. In common with other sources of demographic data, such as skeletal samples, cemetery data may not be representative of the populations from which they were derived. In some circumstances they can be reasonably representative, however, and in such cases they may provide signals about demographic changes in the population that contributed to the cemete…
Influenza-Associated Mortality during the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic in Alaska and Labrador: A Comparison
Some of the most severely affected communities in the world during the 1918-19 influenza pandemic were in Labrador and Alaska. Although these two regions are on the opposite ends of North America, a cultural continuum in the Inuit populations extends throughout the North American Arctic. Both regions contain other population groups, however, and because of these similarities and differences, a comparison of their experiences during the pandemic p…
Cocirculating Epidemics, Chronic Health Problems, and Social Conditions in Early 20th Century Labrador and Alaska
Analyses of mortality in Alaska and Labrador during the 1918 influenza pandemic indicate that influenza itself was only one of several factors influencing mortality in different communities. We discuss the added impact of exposure to influenza prior to the major waves of the pandemic in 1918 and cocirculation of other acute infectious diseases, including pneumonia, smallpox, and measles; chronic conditions such as nutritional deficiencies and tub…
Modeling the spread of infectious disease in human populations
For the past 20 years, there has been an epidemic associated with the development of mathematical models to describe the spread of disease. This epidemic shows no signs yet of dying out. Four major topics related to this discipline are discussed here, including the following: (1) an introduction to the basic assumptions and general framework common to most epidemic models; (2) a discussion of the major questions addressed by epidemic modelers; (3…
Influenza-Associated Mortality during the 1918–1919 Influenza Pandemic in Alaska and Labrador: A Comparison
Some of the most severely affected communities in the world during the 1918–19 influenza pandemic were in Labrador and Alaska. Although these two regions are on the opposite ends of North America, a cultural continuum in the Inuit populations extends throughout the North American Arctic. Both regions contain other population groups, however, and because of these similarities and differences, a comparison of their experiences during the pandemic p…
Epidemics in nonrandomly mixing populations: A simulation
Two stochastic, discrete‐time simulation models for the spread of an epidemic through a population are presented. The models expolore the effects of nonrandom mixing within the population and are based on an SIR epidemic model without vital statistics. They consider a population of preschool children, some of whom attend child care facilities. Disease transmission occurs both within the home neighborhood and at the child care facility used, if an…
I Would Advise That It Be Kept from the Schools at All Cost: The Influenza of 1918-1920 at Nonreservation Indian Boarding Schools
In this article, the authors investigate the 1918-20 influenza pandemic in the federal government's nonreservation Indian boarding schools. Nonreservation boarding schools, which served approximately 6,200 Indigenous youths in 1919, provide a particularly fruitful terrain for analysis due to the detailed records, reports, and correspondence they shared with the Indian Office before, during, and after the pandemic. This rich source base offers a r…
Stable Populations and Skeletal Age
A common procedure in paleodemography is to use mean skeletal age to estimate the expectation of life at birth in a population. This paper shows that skeletal age and expectation of life at birth are not equivalent unless the population is stationary. This assumption is not justified for most real populations. We show that mean skeletal age is approximately equivalent to the reciprocal of the birth rate and is not correlated with the death rate. …
Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective . Ann McElroy, Patricia K. Townsend
Epidemics in nonrandomly mixing populations: A simulation
Two stochastic, discrete‐time simulation models for the spread of an epidemic through a population are presented. The models expolore the effects of nonrandom mixing within the population and are based on an SIR epidemic model without vital statistics. They consider a population of preschool children, some of whom attend child care facilities. Disease transmission occurs both within the home neighborhood and at the child care facility used, if an…
Spread and maintenance of a disease in a structured population
The patterns of interactions among different groups of individuals in a structured population is an important factor affecting the ease of establishment of a disease and the rate of spread of the disease in a population. A model for the spread of a disease in such a population is described. The model considers two levels of interaction: interactions between individuals within a subpopulation because of geographic proximity, and interactions betwe…
Environmental context, social interactions, and the spread of HIV
The spread of HIV through a population is influenced by many factors. These include the frequency and type of sexual activity, age distribution of the population, use of intravenous drugs and behaviors associated with their use, the pattern of infectivity of the virus during the several stages of the infection, geographic location, and the patterns of interaction among individuals and the context in which those interactions occur. A number of que…
Modeling the spread of infectious disease in human populations
For the past 20 years, there has been an epidemic associated with the development of mathematical models to describe the spread of disease. This epidemic shows no signs yet of dying out. Four major topics related to this discipline are discussed here, including the following: (1) an introduction to the basic assumptions and general framework common to most epidemic models; (2) a discussion of the major questions addressed by epidemic modelers; (3…
The effects of population structure on the spread of the HIV infection
A model for the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in a population of male homosexuals is presented. The population is divided into five groups on the basis of degree of sexual activity. Within each group, the individuals are classified as (1) susceptible; (2) infective; or (3) removed because of a lack of sexual activity associated with advanced acquired immunodeficiency disease (AIDS). The infective individuals are further subdivided …
Explaining Biased Sex Ratios in Human Populations: A Critique of Recent Studies [and Comments and Reply]
Yellow fever, black goddess: The coevolution of people and plagues.
By Christopher Wills. New York: Addison Wesley. 1996. 324 pp. ISBN 0-201-44235-3. $24.00 (cloth). © 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Yellow fever, black goddess: The coevolution of people and plagues
By Christopher Wills. New York: Addison Wesley. 1996. 324 pp. ISBN 0-201-44235-3. $24.00 (cloth). © 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc
Biological invasions: Theory and practice
Biological invasions: Theory and practice
Modeling the influence of settlement structure on the spread of influenza among communities
Several factors play critical roles in the geographic spread of infectious diseases, including the movement of people between communities and the social and economic structure of groups of communities. A mathematical model has been developed to examine the individual and shared impact of these factors. This model was applied to the spread of the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic in three Aboriginal communities in central Canada. Previously published r…
Tropical environments, human activities, and the transmission of infectious diseases
Throughout recent history, the tropical regions of the world have been affected more severely by infectious diseases than the temperate world. Much of the success of infectious diseases in that region is due to both biological and environmental factors that encourage high levels of biodiversity in hosts, vectors, and pathogens, and social factors that compromise efforts to control diseases. Several of these factors are described. Discussion then …
Social contexts, syndemics, and infectious disease in northern Aboriginal populations
Until the last half of the 20th century, infectious diseases dominated the health profile of northern North American Aboriginal communities. Research on the 1918 influenza pandemic exemplifies some of the ways in which the social context of European contact and ensuing economic developments affected the nature of infectious disease ecology as well as the frequency and severity of the problem. To understand these impacts it is necessary to conside…
The design and use of an agent‐based model to simulate the 1918 influenza epidemic at Norway House, Manitoba
Agent‐based modeling provides a new approach to the study of virgin soil epidemics like the 1918 flu. In this bottom‐up simulation approach, a landscape can be created and populated with a heterogeneous group of agents who move and interact in ways that more closely resemble human behavior than is usually seen in other modeling techniques. In this project, an agent‐based model was constructed to simulate the spread of the 1918 influenza pandemic …
Agent‐based modeling of the spread of the 1918–1919 flu in three Canadian fur trading communities
Objectives: Previous attempts to study the 1918–1919 flu in three small communities in central Manitoba have used both three‐community population‐based and single‐community agent‐based models. These studies identified critical factors influencing epidemic spread, but they also left important questions unanswered. The objective of this project was to design a more realistic agent‐based model that would overcome limitations of earlier models and pr…
Gleaning signals about the past from cemetery data
Cemetery headstones provide an easily accessible source of demographic data in human populations. In common with other sources of demographic data, such as skeletal samples, cemetery data may not be representative of the populations from which they were derived. In some circumstances they can be reasonably representative, however, and in such cases they may provide signals about demographic changes in the population that contributed to the cemete…
The Epidemiology of Human Disease
This comprehensive introduction to the field of human biology covers all the major areas of the field: genetic variation, variation related to climate, infectious and non-infectious diseases, aging, growth, nutrition, and demography. Written by four expert authors working in close collaboration, this second edition has been thoroughly updated to provide undergraduate and graduate students with two new chapters: one on race and culture and their t…
Cocirculating Epidemics, Chronic Health Problems, and Social Conditions in Early 20th Century Labrador and Alaska
Analyses of mortality in Alaska and Labrador during the 1918 influenza pandemic indicate that influenza itself was only one of several factors influencing mortality in different communities. We discuss the added impact of exposure to influenza prior to the major waves of the pandemic in 1918 and cocirculation of other acute infectious diseases, including pneumonia, smallpox, and measles; chronic conditions such as nutritional deficiencies and tub…
Influenza-Associated Mortality during the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic in Alaska and Labrador: A Comparison
Some of the most severely affected communities in the world during the 1918-19 influenza pandemic were in Labrador and Alaska. Although these two regions are on the opposite ends of North America, a cultural continuum in the Inuit populations extends throughout the North American Arctic. Both regions contain other population groups, however, and because of these similarities and differences, a comparison of their experiences during the pandemic p…
Influenza-Associated Mortality during the 1918–1919 Influenza Pandemic in Alaska and Labrador: A Comparison
Some of the most severely affected communities in the world during the 1918–19 influenza pandemic were in Labrador and Alaska. Although these two regions are on the opposite ends of North America, a cultural continuum in the Inuit populations extends throughout the North American Arctic. Both regions contain other population groups, however, and because of these similarities and differences, a comparison of their experiences during the pandemic p…
The second epidemiologic transition on the brink: What we can learn from the island of Newfoundland during the early 20th century
OBJECTIVES: We aim to understand how the second epidemiologic transition unfolded on the island of Newfoundland during the early 20th century. The focus is on changes in predominant causes of mortality throughout this period, urban and rural differences, and comparisons with other Western nations. We explore factors driving these patterns including the economy, nutrition, sanitation, and access to healthcare and discuss their relevance to underst…
Sex‐ and age‐based differences in mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic on the island of Newfoundland
OBJECTIVES: Our aim was to understand sex- and age-based differences in mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic on the island of Newfoundland. The pandemic's impact on different age groups has been the focus of other research, but sex-based differences in mortality are rarely considered. Aspects of social organization, labor patterns, and social behaviors that contribute to mortality between males and females at all ages are used to explain …
The 1918 influenza pandemic did not accelerate tuberculosis mortality decline in early‐20th century Newfoundland: Investigating historical and social explanations
OBJECTIVES: The selective mortality hypothesis of tuberculosis after the 1918 influenza pandemic, laid out by Noymer and colleagues, suggests that acute exposure or pre-existing infection with tuberculosis (TB) increased the probability of pneumonia and influenza (P&I) mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic, leading to a hastened decline of TB mortality in post-pandemic years. This study describes cultural determinants of the post-pandemic …
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