The phrase "a narrow benefit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a benefit that is limited in scope or applicability.
Example: "The new policy provides a narrow benefit to only a select group of employees, leaving many others without support."
Alternatives: "a limited advantage" or "a slight benefit".
Last month, Express Scripts, one of the largest pharmacy benefit-management companies, said that Celebrex and a rival Merck drug, Vioxx, were being overly prescribed and have only a narrow benefit over older drugs like ibuprofen and naproxen, which are available in generic and over-the-counter versions for a fraction of the price.
This is comparable with study from India which showed the preference for wide range of benefit packages at basic levels than a narrow benefit with higher coverage levels [ 16].
Although a narrow benefit-cost analysis of targeted interventions may well be positive, such an approach does not take into account the real costs of excluding some of those in need, which include both short-term and long-term losses in labour productivity and intergenerational effects arising from maternal malnutrition and reproductive efficiency.
In light of limited public spending on health and a very narrow benefit package, private out-of-pocket payments emerged as a predominant source of financing service provision.
[World Business, Section W.] 2 Drugs Said to Be Overprescribed A new report suggests that the number of prescriptions for Celebrex and Vioxx, two heavily advertised drugs for arthritis, are far higher than they should be, based on their apparent narrow benefit over other medications.
The number of prescriptions for Celebrex and Vioxx, two heavily advertised medicines for arthritis, is far higher than it should be, based on their apparent narrow benefit over other pain relievers of being safer on the stomach, according to new data from Express Scripts, one of the largest pharmacy benefit management companies.
A1 New Health Plan: Less for More With the number of uninsured Americans rising to new heights, some policy makers and influential health care experts are saying that the best way to give health coverage to more people is to narrow benefit packages.
The result is a growing divide in wealth and opportunity between a narrow elite benefiting from the commodities boom and the majority, further fuelling popular discontent.
Finally, the issues are so complex that voters may go with their gut instincts – whether Britain should control its own destiny or be part of a family of European nations – rather than rely on a narrow cost-benefit analysis.
The most important caveat to a "narrow" cost-benefit analysis of actual program participation is that one has to take into account impacts of not offering the program that go well beyond the fact that each participant would have been a non-participant.
No one has defined energy independence, and yet many use the term to support personal or pet projects that offer narrow benefits to them or to those they are beholden to.
