The phrase "assess a problem" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the evaluation or analysis of an issue or challenge to understand its nature or implications.
Example: "Before we can find a solution, we need to assess the problem thoroughly."
Alternatives: "evaluate a problem" or "analyze a problem."
Others can't get started because they need to keep assessing a problem until they have complete confidence in its outcome -- analysis paralysis, as the saying goes, or rigor mortis brought about by a misguided hope of a certain future.
A Monte Carlo analysis uses a random process to assess a complicated problem.
In the autumn of 2008, eighteen somehow commissioned Dr. Sarup's Pest Control to assess a termite problem at an apartment in the town of Malayattoor, in Kerala, India.
It is obviously impossible to fully assess a hidden problem.
It is often times tempting to identify, critique and assess a social problem.
Nonetheless, the reality is that during a routine office visit, the physician has only few minutes to assess a medical problem (reviewing a brief history and few diagnostic tests), and to initiate treatment (writing a drug prescription).
Similarly, while assessing the stresses in the screw channels in the TomoFix plates, only six screw holes (out of the eight TomoFix screw holes in total) lying in the axis Z were considered to assess a symmetrical problem.
Unlike many previous studies, this study uses a human epidemiologic methodology to assess an ecologic problem (with possible relevance to human health).
The diaphragm of the stethoscope is pressed against the chest to listen for rate and rhythm and for murmurs to assess a suspected cardiac problem.
Conversely, if more than two researchers assessed a health problem as unimportant, the item was excluded from the selection.
