Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3701 - Department of Health - Administration and Director › Chapter 3701-67 - Child Fatality Review Board › Section 3701-67-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
As used in this chapter:
(A) "Cause of death" means the classification
			 of death as listed in box 30 on the Ohio death certificate, or an equivalent
			 box on future forms. Examples of causes include, but are not limited to, birth
			 defects, drowning and submersion, electrocution, extreme prematurity, falls,
			 fire and burn, firearms and weapons, pneumonia, poisoning, shaken baby
			 syndrome, sudden infant death syndrome, suffocation and strangulation,
			 vehicular, and other cause.
(B)
			 "Child" means any person under eighteen years of age.
(C) "Child fatality review (CFR) board" means
			 a county or regional board established or appointed to review deaths of
			 children residing in the county or region for the purpose of decreasing the
			 incidence of preventable child deaths.
(D) "Circumstance of death" means any
			 accompanying or surrounding details of the death beyond the cause and manner of
			 death. Examples include, but are not limited to, drowning in a bucket or house
			 fire in rental unit.
(E)
			 "Contributing factors" mean other factors beyond the cause and manner of death
			 that may be partly responsible for the child's death. Examples of contributing
			 factors include medical factors; alcohol use by parent, caretaker or child;
			 drug use by parent, caretaker or child; tobacco use by parent, caretaker or
			 child; use or non-use of safety devices; level of supervision; environmental
			 factors; and mental or behavioral factors of parent, caretaker or child.
(F) "County commissioners" means
			 the board of county commissioners established under Chapter 305. of the Revised
			 Code or an alternative form of county government established pursuant to
			 Chapter 301. of the Revised Code with the responsibilities of county
			 commissioners.
(G) "County of
			 residence" means the county of residence as identified on the Ohio death
			 certificate.
(H) "Department or
			 director" means the director of the Ohio department of health or any official
			 or employee of the department designated by the director of the Ohio department
			 of health.
(I) "Geographic
			 location of death" means the county in which the child was pronounced dead.
(J) "Health commissioner" means
			 the health commissioner of a general, city or county health district or the
			 individual with the responsibilities of a health commissioner in a city or
			 county health district.
(K)
			 "Manner of death" means the classification of death listed in box 32 on the
			 Ohio death certificate, or equivalent box on future forms. The classification
			 is limited to natural, accident, homicide, suicide, and undetermined.
(L) "Preventable" means the degree
			 to which an individual or community could have reasonably done something that
			 would have changed the circumstances that led to the child's death.
(M) "Public record" means any record defined
			 in division (A)(1) of section
			 149.43 of the Revised Code.
(N) "Review" means a general
			 assessment or examination of the death of a child. The review shall at least
			 consider the cause of death; manner of death; circumstance of death;
			 contributing factors; age; sex; race and ethnicity; and geographic location of
			 death.
Five Year Review (FYR) Dates:
				06/07/2016 and
				06/01/2021
Promulgated
				Under: 119.03
Statutory
				Authority: 3701.045
Rule
				Amplifies: 3701.045
Prior
				Effective Dates: 6/28/2001