Abstract
OBJECTIVE
to report an experience of health communication with a strategy based on hosting health videos in a virtual environment.
METHOD
a video sharing site (YouTube), accessible websites, and tools to facilitate the execution of tasks (applications) were used to report a health education experience based on the hosting of videos addressing the subjects of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, airway obstruction by foreign bodies, and hemorrhages.
RESULTS
in 17 months, there were 31,727 views for the resuscitation and the obstruction videos, which were accessed by people from 69 countries, especially Brazil and the United States; the videos about hemorrhages had 5,400 views, by viewers from the same countries.
FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
the use of communication by hosting health videos in a virtual environment impacts on popular education significantly.
Keywords:
Emergency; Social media; Health education; Community participation