Editor's Introduction.

The article presents Michael Hughes' introduction, the editor of the "Journal of Health and Social Behavior." When he applied for the post of editor he pledged that he would encourage the submission of more articles with an institutional or organizational focus on health care and health care delivery. During his editorship, the journal did not receive an inordinate number of submissions on health care, and from March 2001 through June 2004, the "Journal of Health and Social Behavior," published health care organization and delivery articles at about the same rate as it had over the previous six years. Most papers submitted to and published in the journal continued to be on the etiology and epidemiology of health problems, including a very high proportion of studies on mental health and the stress process. As his background is in social psychological approaches to mental health, he had to lean heavily on those with the appropriate expertise. He thanks Ann Flood, deputy editor, who was immensely helpful in initial planning for the issue and in helping him work through the problem of identifying an editor.