Healthcare and social assistance (NAICS 62)

Details

• Personal Author:
  Matzke H
• Description:
  Healthcare and Social Assistance (NAICS 62): 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 practioners or social workers with the requisite expertise. In 2012 there were 705,100 Illinois workers in the healthcare and social assistance industry. 2012 Fatal Injury Facts: 9 fatal injuries occurred in the Illinois healthcare and social assistance in 2012. About half (4) occurred via transportation events. 2012 Nonfatal Injury Facts: Healthcare and Social Assistance-79.9% of injured workers were women. 61.1% of injured workers were between the ages of 25 and 54. Rates of injury were highest in businesses' with 250+ workers (5.6). Workers in nursing and residen..al care facili..es (6.5) had higher rates of injury than hospital workers (5.8). The most common injury was fractures (n=3080). The back was the most common affected body part (n=1860). [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Aging Health Personnel Home Care Services Men Musculoskeletal Diseases Musculoskeletal System Occupational Health Safety Women
• Keywords:
  Age Groups Back Injuries Health Care Health Care Personnel Health Care Workers Home Health Care Humans Nurses Nursing Sociological Factors Sociology

  More +
• Publisher:
  University of Illinois Chicago
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20048294
• Citation:
  Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Chicago, School of Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Division, 2015 May; :1
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  University of Illinois at Chicago
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  62 - Health Care and Social Assistance - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  20100701
• Source Full Name:
  Healthcare and social assistance (NAICS 62)
• End Date:
  20150630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b28f5839f13b5ecbef1f087f80f9cdfa7c44d642b8da24ab9db38fccfcfe4a4d95b101111dc0c34bf6524b34cdbf0f6fe5734df20a6cb84f987e4cfa0b0f1f11
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/203074/cdc_203074_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.81 MB ]