The phrase "a more prevalent problem" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing issues or challenges that are becoming increasingly common or widespread.
Example: "In recent years, climate change has emerged as a more prevalent problem affecting global ecosystems."
Alternatives: "a more common issue" or "a more widespread concern".
While we fully support our colleagues who have been justificably upset about the colorizing of black-and-white movies, we feel that a much more prevalent problem has been overlooked.
Hospices: While late referral to hospice is a much more prevalent problem than early referral, some hospice providers will hesitate to admit patients to hospice (or they may de-certify them from hospice too early) due to scrutiny from Medicare for patients deemed to be on hospice too long.
Cancer-related fatigue is an even more prevalent problem among cancer survivors, and one that also requires a comprehensive, multifactorial, approach to treatment.
"The more prevalent problem", he says, "is not that there is faster depletion, it is that oil companies desperate to get the black gold into the bank are ignoring modern asset-management techniques".
For every 67 publications on unexplained infant death (SIDS) in PubMed, there is only one on the far more prevalent problem of unexplained stillbirths (using the search terms ("unexplained stillbirth*" [All Fields] OR "unexplained fetal death*" [All Fields]) vs. ("Sudden Infant Death" [MeSH] OR "sudden infant death*" [All Fields] OR "SIDS" [All Fields])).
If a death were directly attributable to a device, a company would generally report it to the FDA, although a public health advisory would be reserved for more prevalent problems.
The more prevalent problems leading to impacts were a sensitive tooth (27.9%), oral ulcers (25.8%), toothache (25.1%) and an exfoliating primary tooth (23.4%).
However, research by Professor Karl Pillemer suggests that a more prevalent and serious problem may be aggression and violence that occurs between residents themselves.
Hall wasn't hounding gays; he was trying to repair what he saw as a much more prevalent "behavior problem".
