"intensified the problem" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example, "The lack of resources has intensified the problem of poverty."
On the other hand, the ever-increasing use of technology has intensified the problem of evaluating the meaning and effect of electronically produced and assembled performances that, in their totality, never took place at all and possibly never could.
In addition, the increase of elderly-only households and generation-skipping households has intensified the problem of empty-nest households.
Last year's haze across Southeast Asia, an annual concern in this region, was particularly gruesome and a powerful El Niño weather pattern intensified the problem.
The growth of the HIV and TB co-epidemic and the well known relationship between the two diseases may have intensified the problem of TB stigma in South Africa [ 24].
The crisis intensified the problems faced by creditors to screen the potential borrowers and boosted the research in this field.
A warming climate is intensifying the problem, he said.
Intensifying the problem, Swain added, was the schedule of shifts on the patch.
To this, most of us add a host of factors -- starting with daily baths -- that can intensify the problem.
The fact that the army has put in place a figurehead government and that military officers continue to call the shots behind the scenes only intensifies the problem.
Leisure centres and schools have been converted into shelters, but when the new term starts they will no longer be available, intensifying the problem.
A child who is experiencing mental health discrimination is such a delicate issue that approaching it clumsily or ignoring it all together can intensify the problem.
