The format of the compulsory cover letter forms part of your submission and is located on the first page of your manuscript and should always be presented in English. You should provide all of the following elements:

• Article title: Provide a short title of 50 characters or less.
• Significance of work: Briefly state the significance of the work being reported on.
• Full author details: Title(s), Full name(s), Position(s), Affiliation(s) and contact details (postal address, email, telephone and cellular number) of each author. 
• Corresponding author: Indicate to whom all correspondence should be addressed to.
• Authors’ contributions: Briefly summarise the nature of the contribution made by each of the authors listed, along the lines of the following:  J.K. was the project leader, L.M.N. and A.B. were responsible for experimental and project design. L.M.N. performed most of the experiments. P.R. made conceptual contributions and S.T., U.V. and C.D. performed some of the experiments. S.M. and V.C. prepared the samples and calculations were performed by C.S., J.K. and U.V. wrote the manuscript.
• Possible reviewers: Authors are encouraged to provide the names and full contact details (including email) of two or three potential referees to evaluate the work (referees should not be people with whom the researcher has recently collaborated or published).
• Summary: Lastly, a list containing the number of words, pages, tables, figures and/or other supplementary material should accompany the submission.

Submission language: English (UK) or Afrikaans

Title: The article’s full title should contain a maximum of 95 characters (including spaces).

Abstract (first-level heading)

• Do not cite references in the abstract.
• Do not use abbreviations excessively in the abstract.
• The abstract should be written in English and presented in Afrikaans .
• The abstract should be no longer than 250 words and must be written in the past tense. It may have a structured abstract, for guidelines on writing a structure abstract please see 'Original research' guidelines.

Introduction (first-level heading)
Include a survey of relevant literature and the aim and goal for the review should be presented. The headlines in the review have to be chosen according to the need of that particular review.

Method (no distinct method section) discussion (first-level heading), if appropriate
This section should be structured as follows for an original report. Please keep in mind that the limitation and clinical message should also be discussed.

• Outline of the results (second-level heading)
  Restate the main objective of the study and reaffirm the importance of the study by restating its main contributions; summarise the results in relation to each stated research objective or research hypothesis; link the findings back to the literature and to the results reported by other researchers; provide explanations for unexpected results.
• Practical implications (second-level heading)
  Reaffirm the importance of the study by restating its main contributions and provide the implications for the practical implementation your research.
• Limitations (second-level heading)
  Point out the possible limitations of the study and provide suggestions for future research.
• Recommendations (second-level heading)
  Provide the recommendations emerging out of the current research.

Conclusion (first-level heading)
This should clearly state the main conclusions of the review and give a clear explanation of their importance and relevance with a recommendation for future research (implications for practice). Provide a brief conclusion that restates the objectives, the review, the results and their meaning.

Acknowledgements (first-level heading)
If, through your study, you received any significant help in conceiving, designing, or carrying out the work, or received materials from someone who did you a favour by supplying them, you must acknowledge their assistance and the service or material provided. Authors should always acknowledge outside reviewers of their drafts and any sources of funding that supported the research.

• Competing interests (second-level heading): A competing interest exists when your interpretation of data or presentation of information may be influenced by your personal or financial relationship with other people or organisations that can potentially prevent you from executing and publishing unbiased research. Authors should disclose any financial competing interests but also any non-financial competing interests that may cause them embarrassment were they to become public after the publication of the manuscript. Where an author gives no competing interests, the listing will read ‘The authors declare that they have no financial or personal relationship(s) which may have inappropriately influenced them in writing this paper.’   
• Authors' contributions (second-level heading): In order to give appropriate credit to each author of a article, the individual contributions of authors to the manuscript should be specified in this section. An ‘author’ is generally considered to be someone who has made substantive intellectual contributions to a published study.  Contributions made by each of the authors listed, along the lines of the following (please note the use of author initials):

J.K. was the project leader, L.M.N. and A.B. were responsible for experimental and project design. L.M.N. performed most of the experiments. P.R. made conceptual contributions and S.T., U.V. and C.D. performed some of the experiments. S.M. and V.C. prepared the samples and calculations were performed by C.S., J.K. and U.V. wrote the manuscript.

References (first-level heading)
Begin the reference list on a separate page with no more than 60 references. Health SA Gesondheid uses the Harvard referencing style, details of which can be downloaded from the journal website. Note: No other style will be permitted.