The phrase "address a basic issue" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the need to confront or deal with a fundamental problem or concern in a conversation, report, or analysis.
Example: "In our meeting, we need to address a basic issue that has been affecting team morale."
Alternatives: "tackle a fundamental problem" or "confront a core issue."
A basic issue the seminar will address is that of understanding how this genre was practiced in traditions with greatly varying concepts of representation, self-presentation, and identity.
It took a Civil War that nearly wrecked a nation and three subsequent constitutional amendments to address the basic issue of slavery, citizenship and equal protection.
Our American friends must address the basic issue, one that every other industrialized country has dealt with successfully.
We first address the basic issue of the choice of the variable used to compute new metrics for the mesh adaptivity and show that refinement using simultaneously the real and imaginary part of the solution is successful.
Your Jan . 3editorial does not address the basic issue with Social Security, which is that it is not the place of the government to force people to save their own money.
To address this basic issue in CSC hypothesis, we explored the possibility of exploiting the feature of drug resistance in cancer cells for screening CSCs on the basis of serum-free suspension culture for isolation and in vitro propagation of tumorigenic cancer cells.
Despite their novelty, complexity, and brain knowledge expansion, none of these challenging initiatives addresses the basic issue that a fairly complete neuroanatomical model of the whole human brain, which is required as the reference in brain studies and clinical applications, does not exist.
Some analyses say that fast-developing India is performing worse than some of the poorest countries, such as Liberia and Haiti, in addressing the basic issue of hunger.
