The expanding movement of primary care physicians operating at the first line of healthcare delivery systems in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde KU Leuven
Introduction In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the physicians' ratio is increasing. There are clear indications that many of them have opted to work at the first-line of healthcare delivery systems, i.e. providing primary care. This constitutes an important change in African healthcare systems where the first line has been under the responsibility of nurse-practitioners for decades. Previous reviews on primary care physicians (PCPs) in SSA focused ...