NAICS
Sector: 62 Health Care and Social Assistance
The Health Care and Social Assistance sector comprises
establishments providing health care and social assistance for
individuals. The sector includes both health care and social assistance
because it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the boundaries
of these two activities. The industries in this sector are arranged on
a continuum starting with those establishments providing medical care
exclusively, continuing with those providing health care and social
assistance, and finally finishing with those providing only social
assistance. The services provided by establishments in this sector are
delivered by trained professionals. All industries in the sector share
this commonality of process, namely, labor inputs of health
practitioners or social workers with the requisite expertise. Many of
the industries in the sector are defined based on the educational
degree held by the practitioners included in the industry.
Excluded from this sector are aerobic classes in Subsector 713,
Amusement, Gambling and Recreation Industries and nonmedical diet and
weight reducing centers in Subsector 812, Personal and Laundry
Services. Although these can be viewed as health services, these
services are not typically delivered by health practitioners.