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Acknowledgements
It is good practice to thank those who supported you technically or financially in the design 
and implementation of your study. Also your employer who has allowed you to invest time in 
the study and the respondents may be acknowledged. Acknowledgements are usually placed 
right after the title page or at the end of the report, before the references. 
Table of contents
A table of contents is essential. It provides the reader a quick overview of the major sections 
of your report, with page references, so that (s)he can go through the report in a different 
order or skip certain sections. 
List of tables, figures
If you have many tables or figures it is helpful to list these also, in a ‘table of contents’ type of 
format with page numbers. 
List of abbreviations (optional)
If abbreviations or acronyms are used in the report, these should be stated in full in the text 
the first time they are mentioned. If there are many, they should be listed in alphabetical order 
as well. The list can be placed before the first chapter of the report. 
The table of contents and lists of tables, figures, abbreviations should be prepared last, as 
only then can you include the page numbers of all chapters and sub-sections in the table of 
contents. Then you can also finalise the numbering of figures and tables and include all 
abbreviations. 
I) Introduction 
The introduction is a relatively easy part of the report that can best be written after a first draft 
of the findings has been made. It should certainly contain some relevant (environmental/ 
administrative/ economic/ social) background data about the country, the health status of the 

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population, and health service data which are related to the problem that has been studied. 
You may slightly comprise or make additions to the corresponding section in your research 
proposal, 
including additional literature, and use it for your report. 
Then the statement of the problem should follow, again revised from your research proposal 
with additional comments and relevant literature collected during the implementation of the 
study. It should contain a paragraph on what you hope(d) to achieve with the results of the 
study. 
Global literature can be reviewed in the introduction to the statement of the problem if you 
have selected a problem of global interest. Otherwise, relevant literature from individual 
countries may follow as a separate literature review after the statement of the problem. You 
can also introduce theoretical concepts or models that you have used in the analysis of your 
data in a separate section after the statement of the problem.