With its endless variety of content, YouTube ranks high among the most popular social media platforms. Like most social media platforms, YouTube is constantly trying to improve itself by adding new features to please its users.
The platform now offers two new features to users. It is stated that these new features will make it easier for those who want to access health-related content on YouTube.
Access to reliable health content will now be easier
YouTube, health source information panels and health content shelve It introduces two new features. These two features, which were first tested and made available in the USA last year, are now making it available to users in India, Brazil and Japan. Accordingly, the company plans to roll out the new features in other countries in the coming months.
In the health resource panel, which is the first of these features, it is stated that there will be videos from authorized sources, which means that the videos here are more reliable. In addition, it is noted that the videos will have a badge and a short description indicating that it came from a hospital or medical institute.
YouTube Director and Head of Global Health Services Dr. Garth Graham says, “We add health resource knowledge panels to videos to help viewers identify videos from authoritative sources and health content shelves that more effectively highlight videos from those sources when you search for specific health topics. These context tips are intended to help people navigate more easily and evaluate reliable health information. People will still be able to find relevant videos from a range of channels in search results.”
On the other hand, another new feature, the health content shelf, is a new feature that appears at the top of health-related searches. For example, with this new feature, if you search for the term “breast cancer”, you’ll find a new “From health sources” section at the top, which contains videos from trusted health sources in a vertically scrollable feed. Users will still find relevant information from other sources.
YouTube says it uses a set of principles developed by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) to determine which resources to include in these health features. global effort to identify reliable health resources It works with the World Health Organization (WHO) alongside NAM to review and validate the principles.
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