Fetal Deaths

The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) receives Certificates of Fetal Death from County Vital Statistics Registrars who have received them from hospitals, funeral homes, and ambulatory surgical facilities. ODH also receives copies of fetal death certificates from other State Health Departments when Ohio residents deliver outside of Ohio. Only fetal deaths with estimated gestation of 20 weeks or greater are reported. For public health purposes we distinguish between voluntary terminations (abortions) and stillbirths (surveillance fetal deaths). The abortions are reported as induced terminations in the Abortion report series. All other fetal deaths (stillbirths) of 20 or greater weeks gestation are reported as fetal deaths. The fetal deaths statistics are an important component of perinatal periods of risk analyses.

OHIO AND COUNTY

Fetal deaths by county and by year - Contains the following information: number of fetal deaths, by year.

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Mailing Address:
Ohio Department of Health
Center for Vital and Health Statistics
246 North High Street
Columbus, OH 43215

Telephone: (614) 644-8507
Fax: (614) 644-8526

E-mail: wadmin@odh.ohio.gov

Last Updated: 4/24/2006