Published online 2015 April 1. Editorial Air Pollution Impacts on Women’s Health

just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited. Current scientific researches indicate that environmen-tal factors affect women’s health. In spite of the growing interest in assessing impacts of environmental factors on the health status of women, more attention should be focused on assessing the effects of air pollution on wom-en’s health. Recently the impact of air pollution, both in-door and outdoor, on women health has been a topic of considerable interest to a wide range of researchers and policy analysts (1, 2). Research findings have documented a statistical association between exposures to air pollut-ants, both criteria and non-criteria, and the development of disease and illness, including cancer, chronic obstruc-tive pulmonary disease (COPD), cardiovascular disease, reproductive dysfunction, autoimmune diseases, an