Table 1.

Population, concept, and context (PCC) framework for the scoping review.

Criteria	Component(s)	Explanation
Population (P)	Population Health workforce	Everyone accessing health services. Healthcare workers such as physicians, nurses, midwives, and community health workers that are working as frontline contact in the healthcare system.
Concept (C)	Rationale Scope	Usual reasons or the logical explanations for task shifting and task sharing. Extent or range of services that are task-shifted or -shared amongst various categories of health workers.
Context (C)	Healthcare services African countries	Healthcare services within essential service packages that are either sought or received by the population at any healthcare service delivery level in both public and private sectors. Any country within the African continent.