The objective of this study was to analyze research tendencies in woman's health, through abstracts published in the Annals of Brazilian Nursing Conferences from 2001 to 2005. This is a bibliographic study whose data was collected by using a structured form, with the sample constituting of 960 abstracts. Results were analyzed with help of the specific literature and descriptive statistics which showed a tendency towards qualitative studies, with adult women participants, carried out in hospitals, and from southeastern Brazil, in which authorship faculty were predominant followed by undergraduate students and nursing assistants. The themes pregnancy, labor, breast and womb cancer, breast feeding, sexually transmitted diseases, and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome keep a relation with current policies, which reflects an attempt to respond to women's health needs and the perspective of joining scientific knowledge to humanized attention. The study pointed out gaps in important areas like elderly women's health, violence, and gender.
Woman's health; Nursing; Violence; Pregnancy
