The phrase "as a priority issue" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when emphasizing the importance of a particular matter that needs immediate attention or action.
Example: "We must address climate change as a priority issue to ensure a sustainable future for our planet."
Alternatives: "as a key concern" or "as a critical matter".
After, say, a few years in power, will this drift away as a priority issue?
Investors such as BlackRock and Vanguard have identified human capital as a priority issue in their engagement strategies with investee companies.
To prove the point, during a survey given to religious environmental activists in 2003, water was overwhelmingly listed as a priority issue.
Raising this as a priority issue for governors could lead to more targeted support and improvement, helping to ensure that higher education adequately reflects the society it serves.
Our tax campaign was one of constituents' top issues in parliamentary candidates' inboxes, helping us to establish tax as a priority issue for the next five years.
Gender has now been identified as a priority issue by many donor agencies, but the report points out how little funding has gone into strengthening women's legal rights.
Being able to link these various individual records together over time is therefore a priority issue, as record linkage can give the event history of this individual in the areas of health, morbidity and mortality.
Adopt joint reference protocols and parameters as well as priority issue questions allowing a common and shared effort of harnessing of genetic resources.
Sexuality is rated as a high priority issue by a quarter to three-quarters of survivors [23,62,69], and is ranked as an important unmet need during cancer survivorship [23,42,62,92,93].
Since launching his campaign last month, Rubio has positioned himself as the top defense hawk in a crowded GOP primary, where national security has emerged as a high priority issue for likely Republican voters.
Sparked by public reporting, we have seen a growing cadre of providers, policymakers and consumer advocates uniting to address this problem, and the Department of Health & Human Services declared early elective deliveries as a top priority issue.
