Online Health Monitoring using Facebook Advertisement Audience Estimates in the United States: Evaluation Study
<h3>Background</h3><p dir="ltr">Facebook, the most popular social network with over one billion daily users, provides rich opportunities for its use in the health domain. Though much of Facebook’s data are not available to outsiders, the company provides a tool for estima...
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| author | Yelena Mejova (10642339) |
| author2 | Ingmar Weber (149886) Luis Fernandez-Luque (3572423) |
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| author_facet | Yelena Mejova (10642339) Ingmar Weber (149886) Luis Fernandez-Luque (3572423) |
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| dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv | Yelena Mejova (10642339) Ingmar Weber (149886) Luis Fernandez-Luque (3572423) |
| dc.date.none.fl_str_mv | 2018-03-28T03:00:00Z |
| dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv | 10.2196/publichealth.7217 |
| dc.relation.none.fl_str_mv | https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Online_Health_Monitoring_using_Facebook_Advertisement_Audience_Estimates_in_the_United_States_Evaluation_Study/25921135 |
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| dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv | Health sciences Health services and systems social media public health Internet infodemiology |
| dc.title.none.fl_str_mv | Online Health Monitoring using Facebook Advertisement Audience Estimates in the United States: Evaluation Study |
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| description | <h3>Background</h3><p dir="ltr">Facebook, the most popular social network with over one billion daily users, provides rich opportunities for its use in the health domain. Though much of Facebook’s data are not available to outsiders, the company provides a tool for estimating the audience of Facebook advertisements, which includes aggregated information on the demographics and interests, such as weight loss or dieting, of Facebook users. This paper explores the potential uses of Facebook ad audience estimates for eHealth by studying the following: (1) for what type of health conditions prevalence estimates can be obtained via social media and (2) what type of <i>marker interests</i> are useful in obtaining such estimates, which can then be used for recruitment within online health interventions.<br></p><h3>Objective</h3><p dir="ltr">The objective of this study was to understand the limitations and capabilities of using Facebook ad audience estimates for public health monitoring and as a recruitment tool for eHealth interventions.<br></p><h3>Methods</h3><p dir="ltr">We use the Facebook Marketing application programming interface to correlate estimated sizes of audiences having health-related interests with public health data. Using several study cases, we identify both potential benefits and challenges in using this tool.<br></p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">We find several limitations in using Facebook ad audience estimates, for example, using <i>placebo</i> interest estimates to control for background level of user activity on the platform. Some Facebook interests such as <i>plus-size clothing</i> show encouraging levels of correlation (<i>r</i>=.74) across the 50 US states; however, we also sometimes find substantial correlations with the placebo interests such as <i>r</i>=.68 between interest in <i>Technology</i> and Obesity prevalence. Furthermore, we find demographic-specific peculiarities in the interests on health-related topics.<br></p><h3>Conclusions</h3><p dir="ltr">Facebook’s advertising platform provides aggregate data for more than 190 million US adults. We show how disease-specific <i>marker interests</i> can be used to model prevalence rates in a simple and intuitive manner. However, we also illustrate that building effective marker interests involves some trial-and-error, as many details about Facebook’s <i>black box</i> remain opaque.<br></p><p dir="ltr">JMIR Public Health Surveill 2018;4(1):e30</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: JMIR Public Health and Surveillance<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.2196/publichealth.7217" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.2196/publichealth.7217</a></p> |
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| spelling | Online Health Monitoring using Facebook Advertisement Audience Estimates in the United States: Evaluation StudyYelena Mejova (10642339)Ingmar Weber (149886)Luis Fernandez-Luque (3572423)Health sciencesHealth services and systemssocial mediapublic healthInternetinfodemiology<h3>Background</h3><p dir="ltr">Facebook, the most popular social network with over one billion daily users, provides rich opportunities for its use in the health domain. Though much of Facebook’s data are not available to outsiders, the company provides a tool for estimating the audience of Facebook advertisements, which includes aggregated information on the demographics and interests, such as weight loss or dieting, of Facebook users. This paper explores the potential uses of Facebook ad audience estimates for eHealth by studying the following: (1) for what type of health conditions prevalence estimates can be obtained via social media and (2) what type of <i>marker interests</i> are useful in obtaining such estimates, which can then be used for recruitment within online health interventions.<br></p><h3>Objective</h3><p dir="ltr">The objective of this study was to understand the limitations and capabilities of using Facebook ad audience estimates for public health monitoring and as a recruitment tool for eHealth interventions.<br></p><h3>Methods</h3><p dir="ltr">We use the Facebook Marketing application programming interface to correlate estimated sizes of audiences having health-related interests with public health data. Using several study cases, we identify both potential benefits and challenges in using this tool.<br></p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">We find several limitations in using Facebook ad audience estimates, for example, using <i>placebo</i> interest estimates to control for background level of user activity on the platform. Some Facebook interests such as <i>plus-size clothing</i> show encouraging levels of correlation (<i>r</i>=.74) across the 50 US states; however, we also sometimes find substantial correlations with the placebo interests such as <i>r</i>=.68 between interest in <i>Technology</i> and Obesity prevalence. Furthermore, we find demographic-specific peculiarities in the interests on health-related topics.<br></p><h3>Conclusions</h3><p dir="ltr">Facebook’s advertising platform provides aggregate data for more than 190 million US adults. We show how disease-specific <i>marker interests</i> can be used to model prevalence rates in a simple and intuitive manner. However, we also illustrate that building effective marker interests involves some trial-and-error, as many details about Facebook’s <i>black box</i> remain opaque.<br></p><p dir="ltr">JMIR Public Health Surveill 2018;4(1):e30</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: JMIR Public Health and Surveillance<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.2196/publichealth.7217" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.2196/publichealth.7217</a></p>2018-03-28T03:00:00ZTextJournal contributioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontextcontribution to journal10.2196/publichealth.7217https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Online_Health_Monitoring_using_Facebook_Advertisement_Audience_Estimates_in_the_United_States_Evaluation_Study/25921135CC BY 4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:figshare.com:article/259211352018-03-28T03:00:00Z |
| spellingShingle | Online Health Monitoring using Facebook Advertisement Audience Estimates in the United States: Evaluation Study Yelena Mejova (10642339) Health sciences Health services and systems social media public health Internet infodemiology |
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| title | Online Health Monitoring using Facebook Advertisement Audience Estimates in the United States: Evaluation Study |
| title_full | Online Health Monitoring using Facebook Advertisement Audience Estimates in the United States: Evaluation Study |
| title_fullStr | Online Health Monitoring using Facebook Advertisement Audience Estimates in the United States: Evaluation Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Online Health Monitoring using Facebook Advertisement Audience Estimates in the United States: Evaluation Study |
| title_short | Online Health Monitoring using Facebook Advertisement Audience Estimates in the United States: Evaluation Study |
| title_sort | Online Health Monitoring using Facebook Advertisement Audience Estimates in the United States: Evaluation Study |
| topic | Health sciences Health services and systems social media public health Internet infodemiology |