Are Health Videos from Hospitals, Health Organizations, and Active Users Available to Health Consumers? An Analysis of Diabetes Health Video Ranking in YouTube
Joint Authors
Traver, Vicente
Borras-Morell, Jose-Enrique
Martinez-Millana, Antonio
Karlsen, Randi
Fernandez-Llatas, C.
Source
Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2017, Issue 2017 (31 Dec. 2017), pp.1-9, 9 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2017-01-24
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Health consumers are increasingly using the Internet to search for health information.
The existence of overloaded, inaccurate, obsolete, or simply incorrect health information available on the Internet is a serious obstacle for finding relevant and good-quality data that actually helps patients.
Search engines of multimedia Internet platforms are thought to help users to find relevant information according to their search.
But, is the information recovered by those search engines from quality sources? Is the health information uploaded from reliable sources, such as hospitals and health organizations, easily available to patients? The availability of videos is directly related to the ranking position in YouTube search.
The higher the ranking of the information is, the more accessible it is.
The aim of this study is to analyze the ranking evolution of diabetes health videos on YouTube in order to discover how videos from reliable channels, such as hospitals and health organizations, are evolving in the ranking.
The analysis was done by tracking the ranking of 2372 videos on a daily basis during a 30-day period using 20 diabetes-related queries.
Our conclusions are that the current YouTube algorithm favors the presence of reliable videos in upper rank positions in diabetes-related searches.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Fernandez-Llatas, C.& Traver, Vicente& Borras-Morell, Jose-Enrique& Martinez-Millana, Antonio& Karlsen, Randi. 2017. Are Health Videos from Hospitals, Health Organizations, and Active Users Available to Health Consumers? An Analysis of Diabetes Health Video Ranking in YouTube. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine،Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1142352
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Fernandez-Llatas, C.…[et al.]. Are Health Videos from Hospitals, Health Organizations, and Active Users Available to Health Consumers? An Analysis of Diabetes Health Video Ranking in YouTube. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine No. 2017 (2017), pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1142352
American Medical Association (AMA)
Fernandez-Llatas, C.& Traver, Vicente& Borras-Morell, Jose-Enrique& Martinez-Millana, Antonio& Karlsen, Randi. Are Health Videos from Hospitals, Health Organizations, and Active Users Available to Health Consumers? An Analysis of Diabetes Health Video Ranking in YouTube. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. 2017. Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1142352
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1142352