Cable wrote: "As Liberal Democrats, we see a role for a narrow, specific intervention, compatible with our European legal framework, used as a last resort rather than a first response.
Especially, if the prevalence of antibacterial resistance is high, these narrow spectrum interventions are insufficient to prevent clinical complications.
According to our multi-center case-control study, being overweight might be related to lumbar disc herniation and to lumbar disc narrowing, but intervention studies particularly are needed to further clarify this relationship.
There is limited evidence on the acceptability, feasibility and cost-effectiveness of task-sharing interventions to narrow the treatment gap for mental disorders in sub-Saharan Africa.
Some perceived barriers reported by patients may be considered nonmodifiable, or at the very least difficult to modify with a narrow physical activity intervention.
The studies showed limited evidence for the effectiveness of such interventions, however effect sizes were small or moderate, follow-up periods were limited and only a narrow range of interventions were reviewed, notably guided self-help such as computerised therapies and not the more diverse array of self-management strategies as reported in this study.
Secondly, it appeared beneficial to put particular attention to a narrow range of interventions with low cost-effectiveness ratios.
It renounced the ambition of broad social transformation in favour of narrow, but feasible interventions through special programmes to deliver these so-called 'vertical' or 'disease control programmes'.
But such perspectives may drive policy development towards a narrow set of interventions without full consideration of the "push" factors and country contexts [ 10].
The ambition of broad social transformation was renounced in favour of narrow, but feasible interventions through special programmes to deliver these so-called 'vertical' or 'disease control programmes', selective PHC.
