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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.

  • Drinking Water
    Dr. Paul Halverson
    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…
  • Arkansas State Tuberculosis Sanatorium
    Tuberculosis Sanatorium
    Dr. Paul Halverson
    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…
  • First Recorded Death Certificate
    Malaria
    Dr. Paul Halverson
    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…
  • Educational Bulletin on Hookworm Disease
    Hookworm
    Dr. Paul Halverson
    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…