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'Do (not) go to vote!' media provocation explained

Driessens, Olivier - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This article conceptualizes media provocation, a common but understudied practice of mediatized protest and resistance, marketing or (self-)promotion and awareness raising. It is defined as a mediated act that questions or contravenes norms, values, laws, rules and symbolic power, thereby...

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The celebritization of society and culture: understanding the structural dynamics of celebrity culture

Driessens, Olivier - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

In recent debates about the ever-growing prominence of celebrity in society and culture, a number of scholars have … conceptualized as a meta-process that grasps the changing nature, as well as the societal and cultural embedding of celebrity, which …

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Celebrity capital: redefining celebrity using field theory

Driessens, Olivier - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This article proposes to redefine celebrity as a kind of capital, thereby extending Bourdieu’s field theory. This … redefinition is necessary, it is argued, because one of the main limitations shared by current definitions of celebrity is their … lack of explanatory power of the convertibility of celebrity into other resources, such as economic or political capital …

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The X-factor of charity: a critical analysis of celebrities' involvement in the 2010 Flemish and Dutch Haiti relief shows

Driessens, Olivier; Joye, Stijn; Biltereyst, Daniel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

In our contemporary mediatized societies, philanthropy seems to be part of celebrities’ ontology, while celebrities have become indispensable for the charity industry. This has provoked both negative and positive appraisals, although the specific nature and consequences of celebrities’...

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How mental illness loses out in the NHS

London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Mental illness accounts for a massive share of the total burden of disease. Even when we include the burden of premature death mental illness accounts for 23% of the total burden of disease. Yet, despite the existence of cost-effective treatments, it receives only 13% of NHS health expenditure....

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Economic evaluations of child and adolescent mental health interventions : a systematic review

Romeo, Renée; Byford, Sarah; Knapp, Martin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

BACKGROUND : The need has grown over recent years for economic information on the impacts of child and adolescent mental helath problems and the cost-effectiveness of interventions. METHODS : A range of electronic databases were searched using a predefined search strategy. To identify economic...

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Actions to alleviate the mental health impact of the economic crisis

Wahlbeck, Kristian; McDaid, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

The current global economic crisis is expected to produce adverse mental health effects that may increase suicide and … impact on mental health and increase mortality due to suicides and alcohol-related disorders, it is also a window of …

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Poverty and postnatal depression: a systematic mapping of the evidence from low and lower middle income countries

Coast, Ernestina; Leone, Tiziana; Hirose, Atsumi; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This study systematically maps, assesses and aggregates research relating to postnatal depression (PND) and poverty in low and lower middle income countries (LLMICs). Our search of 12 databases yielded 2202 articles, of which 47 items from 17 countries were included in our mapping. We highlight...

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Sheepskin or prozac: the causal effect of education on mental health

Chevalier, Arnaud; Feinstein, Leon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Mental illness is associated with large costs to individuals and society. Education improves various health outcomes but little work has been done on mental illness. To obtain unbiased estimates of the effect of education on mental health, we rely on a rich longitudinal dataset that contains...

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A map of mental health

Smithies, Rachel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper provides a comprehensive picture of mental health services in England, includingstaffing and expenditure, and the number of people in need and the number treated.Historically, this information has been split across sub-sections of the health and socialservices; and the readily...

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