Healthcare
GPC segment
About
Healthcare is one of the top-level segments of the GS1 Global Product Classification, the scheme that gives every brick code used elsewhere on this site its place in a hierarchy of segment, family, class and brick. It covers what is bought to treat or monitor the body rather than to groom it: first aid and drug administration, mobility and personal aids, pain relief, gastrointestinal, respiratory and skin remedies, contraception, dietary aids and nutritional supplements, home diagnostic tests and monitors, medical devices, pharmaceutical drugs and veterinary healthcare.[1] GS1 publishes its "includes" and "excludes" definitions only at brick level, so a segment such as this one carries no definition text of its own; that is why this page describes what the segment contains rather than quoting a definition, as the brick pages beneath it do.[1]
In publication 286 of May 2026 the segment holds eight families, thirty-five classes and 149 bricks, and it is very unevenly filled. Health Treatments/Aids alone accounts for nineteen classes and 113 of those bricks, the largest being Sensory Organs Care/Treatments and Skin/Scalp Aid Products with thirteen each, Respiratory/Allergy Products with twelve and Gastrointestinal Remedy Products with nine. The remaining seven families are comparatively small: Health Enhancement (four classes, ten bricks), Family Planning (four classes, eight bricks), Home Diagnostics (three classes, eight bricks), Pharmaceutical Drugs (one class, four bricks), Veterinary Healthcare (two classes, three bricks), Medical Devices (one class, two bricks) and Healthcare Variety Packs (one class, one brick).[1]
Two features of the numbering are worth stating plainly, because both invite a wrong guess. Segment, family and class codes share the segment's prefix — 51000000, then 51100000, then 51101500 — but brick codes do not: every brick in this segment is numbered in a single global sequence, from 10000448 to 10008242, interleaved with the bricks of every other segment. A brick code on its own therefore says nothing about which segment classifies it, and only the parent chain does, which each category file on this site records in its parent field.[1] The outer boundary of the segment is easy to misjudge as well, because personal hygiene belongs to Beauty/Personal Care/Hygiene (segment 53000000) instead: Feminine Hygiene - Tampons and Adult Incontinence - Supplies both classify there, under the Personal Hygiene Products family, though they are sold from the same pharmacy shelf as much of what this segment covers.[1]
Subcategories
References
- ↑ GS1 GPC Browser, publication 286 (May 2026) GS1. registry. Accessed 2026-09-12. Record: 51000000. Segment.
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