NAF R—Human health activities and social action

Where R sits

1. R Human health activities and social action

Contains 3 narrower codes

• 86 Activities for human health
• 87 Activities of care in a residential facility
• 88 Activities of social action without accommodation

What R includes

• This section includes a wide range of activities of health and social action. These activities can be carried out by service providers, private or public.
• The activities of health care short-term or long-term. It covers the general or specialized care, medical or surgical, offered by hospitals, préventoriums, the nursing homes, psychiatric hospitals, rehabilitation centres, and the other institutions of human health, which have accommodation facilities and which provide diagnostics and treatment, mainly in patients hospitalized with a wide range of pathologies.
• Medical consultation and care provided by the general practitioners, specialists, and surgeons. It includes the activities of care dental general or specialized, as well as the activities of orthodontics.
• In addition, the activities of medical, curative, rehabilitation, or prevention performed by paramedical practitioners and health professionals other than hospitals or physicians in practice.
• Other activities related to human health (for example, activities of medical laboratories, blood banks, sperm banks, banks organs, etc., including the collection, processing, storage and shipping).

R in other systems