Philipp Trein is a postdoctoral researcher in political science at the Institute of Political, Historical, and International Studies (IEPHI) of the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, and a visiting scholar at the Institute of European studies (IES) at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests cover comparative public policy (coordination and integration of policies, health policy, and employment policy), comparative federalism and multilevel governance (including European studies), as well as economic voting (Germany). His research has been published or is forthcoming in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, European Journal of Political Research, German Politics, the Journal of Public Policy, the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, Public Administration, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, and Regional and Federal Studies.
1. Introduction
2. Sectoral coupling of health care and public health
3. Theoretical priors
4. Global context and case selection
5. UK: institutional unification and tight coupling of health care and public health
6. Australia: politicized professions and tight coupling of health care and public health
7. Germany: dominance of individual health care and de-coupling from public health
8. Switzerland: Institutional fragmentation, depoliticized professions, and non-coupling
9. US: politicized professions and loose coupling of health care and public health
10. Coevolution of policy sectors. Health care and public health in a comparative perspective.
