Health Care

Health Care is sector 35 of the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), the industry taxonomy developed in 1999 by MSCI and Standard & Poor's for classifying public companies by their principal business activity. Under GICS, sector 35 is organized into two industry groups: Health Care Equipment & Services, covering health care equipment and supplies, health care distributors, health care services and facilities, managed health care, and health care technology; and Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences, covering biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and life sciences tools and services. A company, product, or service is classified into this sector when its principal business activity falls within one of these two industry groups.