The year 2000 has passed and clearly we have not attained Health for All. Nowhere is more evident than in the rural and remote communities where most of the World’s people lives. The study is focused no determining the influence of rural communities attributes on the implementation of primary health care in Edo North Senatorial District, Nigeria. A descriptive research design of cross sectional type was adopted for the study. A sample of 384 primary health care stakeholders were selected using purposive sampling technique along the six local government areas in Edo North Senatorial District of Nigeria. Researcher designed questionnaire was used for data collection after been validated by three experts in the field of health education. A reliability correlation coefficient of 0.74 was obtained using Pearson product moment correlation from the scores of the two administrations. Questionnaires were administered with the help of three research assistants. Five research hypotheses were formulated and tested using chi-square inferential statistic at 0.05 alpha level of significance. The findings of the study showed that social amenities, homogeneity of population, poverty, cultural beliefs and illiteracy have significant influence on the implementation of primary health care. It was concluded that the lack of social amenities, homogeneity of population, cultural/superstitious beliefs, poverty and illiteracy should be taken into consideration in planning and implementation of primary health care in rural communities of Edo North Senatorial District of Nigeria. The researchers recommended among others that government should alleviate the poverty of rural communities through the provision of basic amenities and heightened health education to raise health
literacy at all levels.