From the Editors

In her review of Raisa Deber's Treating Health Care: How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better, Jennifer Zwicker characterizes policy analysis as "the bridge where policy theory meets practical application." This observation could serve as a guiding principle for many of the articles we publish in Healthcare Quarterly. Fundamentally, what is at stake for so many of our authors is analyzing the policy theories that spark innovations and then measuring the success of those initiatives in order to revise their theoretical underpinnings.