Current Status of Epidemiological Studies on Health Effects of Indoor Radon

As the increasing requirements for quality improvements of living environment, the issue on the health effects due to in door radon has also become a public concern. This paper briefly described the characteristics of radon and its exposure pathways onto human, comprehensively reviewed both the domestic and international research results on the health effects of indoor radon from the population and molecular epidemiological studies. Furthermore, several further studies were proposed for the reasonable control of indoor radon exposure.