The creation of the National Integrated Health System (NIHS) attempted to reverse the existing fragmentation and inequity in access, opportunity and quality of health care. Progressive implementation incorporating prioritized comprehensive providers of health services, which provide services at the three levels of complexity of care. Purpose: To visualize the situation of rural and community health services unincorporated to NIHS, its history and generate action-proposals, advocacy for integration into the NIHS and the development of Comprehensive Primary Health Care (CPHC). Methods: Participatory-Action-Research, quantitative, qualitative, and collective analysis with participants. Conclusions: contribution to desinvisibilization of the community and rural health services situation, prioritization of rural health as public policy.
Rural health; Primary health care; Health equity; Health systems