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ALL HEALTH PROFESSIONS Christian Harrison
CHIROPRACTIC Arkansas Department of Health
DENTISTRY Center For Health Statistics
DIETETICS 4815 W. Markham Slot 19
MEDICAL Little Rock, AR 72205
NURSING Telephone: 501 280 4067
OPTOMETRY Fax: 501 661 2544
PHARMACY EMAIL:charrisn@mail.doh.state.ar.us
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ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTHCENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS
HEALTH PROFESSIONS LICENSING SURVEYMANPOWER STATISTICS:1997
PREFACE
This report is based on information obtained by the licensing boards during the 1997
license renewal process. Copies of practitioner responses to questions on license renewal
applications were provided to CHS by the licensing boards. It should be noted that,
because the data were collected by the several boards on questionnaires designed to meet
the licensing requirements of the individual professions, a certain consistency of format
and content, desirable for manpower measurement, is missing from the data. Various items
of demographic data, e.g., ethnic origin and gender, are obtained by some, but not all, of
the boards. Information relating to a practitioner's location --address, city, county,
state, etc. -- meets the licensing board's need to communicate with the practitioner by
mail and may or may not identify the site(s) where health related services are actually
performed.
The report includes both tables and maps representing health professions manpower
distribution and demographics in Arkansas counties. Census Bureau 1997 population
estimates were used in the computation of population ratios throughout this report.
Acknowledgement: We wish to express our gratitude to each of the licensing boards of
these professions for their cooperation in providing requested access to their license
renewal files.