{"id":18795,"date":"2018-08-16T10:30:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T14:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/?p=18795"},"modified":"2018-09-07T09:25:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T13:25:00","slug":"revisiting-the-six-city-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/news\/revisiting-the-six-city-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting the Six City Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18796\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/news\/revisiting-the-six-city-study\/attachment\/sixcity2018\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sixcity2018.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,450\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sixcity2018\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sixcity2018-1024x384.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sixcity2018-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sixcity2018-1024x384.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sixcity2018-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sixcity2018-768x288.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sixcity2018.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\"Last June, eight new Harvard-affiliated researchers revisited the study, using new technologies and innovations in statistical analysis and examining Medicare data\u2014the largest and most public dataset available documenting the health of U.S. citizens\u2014thus presumably averting renewed charges of secret science (an issue raised anew by current EPA administrator Scott Pruitt). Their findings breathe new life into the main conclusion of the original Six Cities research: that fine-particulate matter, even in concentrations\u00a0<em>below<\/em>\u00a0the current national standards, drives up mortality rates across the country.\" - Harvard Magazine, July\/August 2018<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harvardmagazine.com\/2018\/07\/six-cities-study-air-pollution-revisited\">Harvard Magazine<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsph.harvard.edu\/news\/hsph-in-the-news\/harvard-chan-studies-air-pollution-u-s-deaths\/\">HCSPH website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">&nbsp; \"Last June, eight new Harvard-affiliated researchers revisited the study, using new technologies and innovations in statistical analysis and examining Medicare data\u2014the largest and most public dataset available documenting the health of U.S. citizens\u2014thus presumably averting renewed charges of secret science (an issue raised anew by current EPA administrator Scott Pruitt). Their findings breathe new life into the main conclusion&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/news\/revisiting-the-six-city-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":18796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YvN-4T9","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sixcity2018.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18797,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18795\/revisions\/18797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}