The phrase "addressing the basic issues" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the need to confront or deal with fundamental problems or concerns in a particular context.
Example: "In our meeting, we will be addressing the basic issues that have been affecting our project’s progress."
Alternatives: "tackling the fundamental problems" or "dealing with the core issues."
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.
As a result, it will be an important opportunity to all the stakeholders to design and implement community based wildlife management approaches that at least should address the basic issues of the pastoral communities.
This chapter addresses the basic issues that are addressed during the design phases of a building project and discusses a number of factors that influence building designs such as codes and economic considerations.
Our American friends must address the basic issue, one that every other industrialized country has dealt with successfully.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yet it seems powerless to address even the basic issues of clean water and sewers that would make such epidemics entirely preventable — a paradox that critics attribute to corruption, incompetence or the hangover of a 27-year civil war that flooded the capital with refugees, or all three.
