The phrase "address this basic issue" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a fundamental problem or concern that needs to be dealt with or resolved.
Example: "In our meeting, we need to address this basic issue before moving on to more complex topics."
Alternatives: "tackle this fundamental problem" or "deal with this core issue".
Thirty-six management questions directly addressed this basic issue for various aspects of patient care.
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.
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.
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.
Additional modeling studies of multiple-foil/multiple-chamber/anode configurations addressed the basic issue of the relatively longer absorption range of neutrons versus the shorter range of the conversion products for 6LiF and 10B.
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.
With the examples presented, we argue that knowledge does exist to help system design facilitators address these basic issues.
