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Arkansas Health Department Features

Arkansas Health Department Features

2013 marks the 100-year anniversary of the Arkansas Department of Health. To mark the anniversary, KUAR is airing 1-minute features throughout the day on various issues in public health.

  • This is Arkansas’s public health story, celebrating 100 years of service. I’m Dr. Paul Halverson.At the start of the twentieth century, merely drinking a…
  • This is Arkansas’s public health story, celebrating 100 years of service. I’m Dr. Paul Halverson.In the early 1900s, Tuberculosis was the second-leading…
  • This is Arkansas’s public health story, celebrating 100 years of service. I’m Dr. Paul Halverson.On February 2nd, 1914, Miss Henrietta Clark, a…
  • This is Arkansas’s public health story, celebrating 100 years of service. I’m Dr. Paul Halverson.One of the common ailments in the late 1800s was hookworm…