We have provided the selection of example health dissertation topics below to help and inspire you. If you need help with the topic and titles for your own dissertation then our writers are avilable to help. Click on the button below for more information about our topics with titles service: topics with titles service within mental health provision: the reliance upon cognitive behavioural therapy has become too great a discussion. the national health service nhs has invested heavily in the promotion of cognitive behaviour therapy cbt for adults with mental health issues. However, the efficacy of cbt has been under consideration, and questions remain whether the nhs is taking into account the individual needs of mental health patients. This study examines the virtues and disadvantages of the large scale adoption of therapy nationwide, across a variety of ages and psychological phenomena, and explores whether other forms of psychological intervention are overlooked in the nhs.

2009 lsquo cognitive behavioural therapy with older adults: enthusiasm without the evidence?' the cognitive behaviour therapist, vol. the fat tax: a discriminatory measure upon the vulnerable? david cameron's consideration of a lsquo fat tax', in line with those introduced by countries such as denmark and hungary, raised community awareness of the obesity epidemic. This dissertation examines the efficacy of the application of higher taxes on foods deemed lsquo unhealthy' and conducts a wide review of the literature currently available for measures such as this. The study considers whether the tax is an appropriate compensation for the taxpayer in light of the additional costs placed upon the nhs because of increased strains caused by obesity, or whether a fat tax would merely inflict greater suffering on those sectors of the community struggling not only with their own health issues but with wider socio economic matters. 2007 lsquo could targeted food taxes improve health?' journal of epidemiology and community health, vol. an analysis of the coalition government's proposals for reform to the nhs: a necessary step to recovery or the death knell of the nhs? the coalition government's publication of the white paper equity and excellence: liberating the nhs has caused consternation amongst the guardians of the health service.

This paper reviews whether health minister andrew lansley's proposals that primary care trusts and strategic health authorities should be eliminated in favour of greater power in the hands of gps, and the return of public health responsibilities to local authorities is a step back into the past rather than the future. Primary research takes the form of surveys with gps and health care professionals, and a comprehensive literature review is undertaken. 2010 lsquo the coalition government's plans for the nhs in england', bmj 341:c3790.

lsquo free at the point of delivery': a critical review of the extent to which this founding principle of the nhs has been undermined since the 1960s the founding ideology of the nhs was that service would be free at the point of delivery. However, this dissertation suggests that this was little more than illusory and was a slogan that, within fifteen years of the formation of the nhs, was no longer appropriate. The introduction of dental costs and prescription charges by consecutive labour governments was therefore, this dissertation suggests, therefore, a betrayal of founding ideologies by the very political party that always seeks to portray itself as the lsquo saviour of the nhs'. A range of primary source interviews with clients, practitioners and patients would supplement the secondary reading and theory that underpins this dissertation. 2010 lsquo top up payments for expensive cancer drugs: rationing, fairness and the nhs', modern law review, vol.

2010 the new politics of the nhs: from creation to reinvention 6th edn . abingdon: radcliffe. 2006 lsquo we risk forgetting what it means to be free', bmj, 3 7581: 1277. gps as accountants: a critical appraisal of the changing role of gps through the development of the internal nhs market and primary health care trusts. the changing nature of the nhs and the introduction of the internal market within the 1980s/1990s led to a change in the role of doctors and gps within the service. This process was continued and augmented under labour with primary care trusts and a resultant rise in the number of practice managers has been noted in official literature of the period.

This dissertation evaluates the extent to which the lsquo cost benefit analysis' of care has resulted in better patient care at gp level since the 1980s onwards and makes a number of comments as to how the present proposal for reform can be seen to feed into this longer term movement. 2011 lsquo cameron proposes radical changes to england's nhs reforms', bmj, 342, d3624. 2012 lsquo gp commissioning and the nhs reforms: what lies behind the hard sell?', journal of the royal society for medicine, vol.