Wash. Admin. Code § 246-492-010 - Definitions
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
(1) "Analytic services" means a service
provided by the department that includes working with vital records data in
order to disseminate requested information to customers. This service includes,
but is not limited to, data analysis for calculating and providing specific
counts, rates, and other statistics; building and distributing aggregate
reports; linkage of data; and producing record level data files and subsets of
data files for customers.
(2)
"Custom data request" means a specialized vital records data request or data
file created and released by the department. Custom data request does not mean
standard data file.
(3) "Data"
means a data file containing multiple records.
(4) "Department" means the department of
health.
(5) "Direct identifier"
means a single data element that identifies an individual person.
(6) "Fetal death" means any product of
conception that shows no evidence of life, such as breathing, beating of the
heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary
muscles after complete expulsion or extraction from the individual who gave
birth that is not an induced termination of pregnancy and:
(a) Has completed twenty or more weeks of
gestation as calculated from the date the last menstrual period of the
individual who gave birth began, to the date of expulsion or extraction;
or
(b) Weighs three hundred fifty
grams or more, if weeks of gestation are not known.
(7) "General data inquiry request" means a
request for information that can be answered with use of vital records data,
but without the need for extensive investigation, analysis, report building or
data file production.
(8)
"Government agencies" includes state boards, commissions, committees,
departments, educational institutions, or other state agencies which are
created by or pursuant to statute, other than courts and the legislature;
county or city agencies, United States federal agencies, and federally
recognized tribes and tribal organizations.
(9) "Human research review board" is a
standing institutional review board operating under chapter 42.48
RCW.
(10) "Indirect identifier"
means a single data element that on its own does not identify an individual
person, but when combined with other indirect identifiers can be used to
identify an individual person.
(11)
"Individual" means a natural person.
(12) "Infant death" means a death of a child
under one year of age.
(13) "Public
health purpose" means a purpose that seeks to support or evaluate public health
activities, which include, but are not limited to, health surveillance;
identifying population health trends; health assessments; implementing
educational programs; program evaluation; developing and implementing policies;
determining needs for access to services and administering services; creating
emergency response plans; promoting healthy lifestyles; and preventing,
detecting, and responding to infectious diseases, injury, and chronic and
inheritable conditions. Public health purpose does not include research as
defined in this section.
(14)
"Research" means a systematic investigation, including research development,
testing, and evaluation, designed to develop or contribute to generalizable
knowledge. Activities that meet this definition constitute research for
purposes of this policy, whether or not they are conducted or supported under a
program that is considered research for other purposes.
(15) "Secretary" means the secretary of the
department of health.
(16)
"Standard data file" means routine statewide vital records data created and
released by the department. Standard data file does not mean specialized custom
data requests and data files.
(17)
"State" means Washington state unless otherwise specified.
(18) "State registrar" means the person
appointed by the secretary to administer the vital records system under
RCW
70.58A.030.
(19) "Vital record" or "record" means a
report of a vital life event that has been registered and supporting
documentation.
(20) "Vital
statistics" means the aggregated data derived from vital records, including
related reports, and supporting documentation.
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