The expanding movement of primary care physicians operating at the first line of healthcare delivery systems in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review

• Kéfilath Bello ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kéfilath Bello, Jan De Lepeleire, Jeff Kabinda M., Bart Criel

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kefilath@gmail.com

  Affiliations Centre de Recherche en Reproduction Humaine et en Démographie, Cotonou, Benin, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6081-4178

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• Jan De Lepeleire ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kéfilath Bello, Jan De Lepeleire, Jeff Kabinda M., Bart Criel

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, General Practice, KU Leuven—University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6152-2134

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• Jeff Kabinda M. ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kéfilath Bello, Jan De Lepeleire, Jeff Kabinda M., Bart Criel

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre de Connaissances en Santé en République Démocratique du Congo, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Samuel Bosongo ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Centre de Connaissances en Santé en République Démocratique du Congo, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8097-6721

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• Jean-Paul Dossou ,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Centre de Recherche en Reproduction Humaine et en Démographie, Cotonou, Benin

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• Evelyn Waweru ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4599-8973

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• Ludwig Apers ,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Marcel Zannou ,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Centre de Recherche en Reproduction Humaine et en Démographie, Cotonou, Benin, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Benin

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• Bart Criel

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kéfilath Bello, Jan De Lepeleire, Jeff Kabinda M., Bart Criel

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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