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| The Center is Oregon's vital records office. Each birth, marriage, divorce, and death - that occurs in Oregon is registered and filed with our office. |
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Provide good quality customer service while maintaining confidentiality and security of all Oregon's vital records.
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The Center for Health Statistics (Vital Records) provides direct services to customers throughout the globe by providing vital records as needed. The Center is responsible for registering, certifying, amending, and issuing Oregon vital records. These records are the legal records documenting a vital event and, in the case of birth certificates, are the primary documents used to establish identity. The Center for Health Statistics also amends vital records to establish paternity, as well as processing adoptions and corrections. Another service the Center provides is to compile and analyze the data from vital records, and maintain the adult and youth risk behavior surveys.
The Center for Health Statistics is responsible for maintaining approximately 6 million vital records. Birth and death records have been filed with the state since 1903. Marriage records have been filed since 1906, divorce records since 1925, and fetal death records since 1919.
Vital records and the adult and youth risk behavior surveys are the primary sources of data used to measure and track the health status of Oregonians. These data are also used throughout the state and nation for program planning and policy development and are the primary data sources used for measuring many Oregon Benchmarks, Department of Human Services Outcomes and Performance Measures, and Healthy People 2010 Objectives.
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