The phrase "heighten public concern" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing issues or events that are likely to increase anxiety or worry among the general public.
Example: "The recent environmental disaster has begun to heighten public concern about climate change."
Alternatives: "increase public anxiety" or "raise public awareness."
For a generation, however, the nuclear industry has fought KI stockpiling, fearing that it would heighten public concern over the safety of nuclear plants.
The value of informing the public about precautionary measures has been called into question by studies which show that such advice may in fact heighten public concern [ 75- 77].
Secrecy itself may heighten public concern, as appeared to occur as a result of the high-volume use of a dispersant with an unknown component during the Deepwater Horizon disaster (Goldstein et al. 2011).
Furthermore, process safety, occupational health and environmental hazards are ever increasing in importance in response to heightening public concern and the resultant tightening of regulations.
Amid heightened public concern over spending, the White House disclosed that Mr. Obama wanted increased authority to strip wasteful projects from spending bills.
Surely heightened public concern about the risk of future economic catastrophe in the wake of the financial crisis is still playing an important role, reinforced by lingering fragility in the eurozone and rising instability in emerging markets.
City officials and asthma experts credited medical and community efforts under the city's Childhood Asthma Initiative, which began in 1997 amid heightened public concern about the epidemic, for much of the improvement.
Osborne said his idea for the new blacklist had been inspired by the release of the Panama Papers, which have "heightened public concern... and put further pressure on governments.
There have also been reports of snooping by firms, invasion of privacy by criminals and lax treatment of payment details and personal data.This heightened public concern about privacy has overcome stalled efforts in some corners of the internet to deploy encryption, validation and anti-tampering options that had been left idle.
The advent of modern DNA technology that can often prove with certainty the guilt or innocence of people convicted of serious crimes has heightened public concern about the fallibility of the criminal justice system, causing a dramatic shift in the nation's debate over capital punishment.
