This paper comes from a study aiming to evaluate loco-regional strategies of articulation between the levels of health care organizations, considering both the adjustment to the existing rules (deliberate strategy), and the creative developments (emergent strategies) built in the contexts studied. The reference for judgment (an act inherent to evaluative research) was the coherence with the Constitutional principles that define the SUS. The case study reported was based on information obtained in secondary documents, by extensive direct observation, questionnaires and deep interviews with key informants. The results showed, in respect to the articulation of primary health care with other levels of attention of the Bororo in the Polo-Base Rondonópolis, the predominance of a model of services organization focusing on specialized high cost activities, in detriment of popular knowledge and traditional health practices. Beyond that, the deliberate strategy of Indigenous Special Sanitary Districts was transformed, having emerged a structure similar to the disseminated notion of health district without considering the specificities of indigenous health. It confirmed the assumption that guided oriented this study, according to which there is a huge gap between what is stated and formalized in plans perpared according to rules and what effectively occurs in everyday services as well as in the flow of patients.
health services; strategy; indigenous health
