The phrase 'latent concern' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a feeling of unease or something that people worry about, though it is not yet expressed openly. For example, "There is a latent concern among parents about vaccinations for their children."
In spite of these latent concerns, the possibility to use longer-lived mother nuclides as in vivo α-particle nanogenerators in cancer therapy can provide significant advantages.
In fact, for some women, the sharing of latent concerns about infertility with a potential husband constituted an important step towards consolidating the partnership.
I've said it once, and I'll say it again: The people involved at every level of the intensive meat industry would do well to take a long, hard look in the mirror, and recognize the latent public concern about the over-industrialization of food production before it's too late.
There's a latent worry about inflation".
The manifest part concerns what is said and is visible in the text, while the latent part concerns finding an interpretable structure, a deeper underlying meaning [ 21].
I try hard to keep any latent theological concerns out of my work.
In terms of eruption probability, the four most important nodes (0, 2, 3 and 4 – see above for definitions) are all latent factors concerning aspects of magma condition or behaviour at depth.
We therefore treated the items as reflecting a latent variable (Concerns regarding adverse effects of pH1N1 vaccination).
The main differences between latent classes concerned fat anxiety, weight perception and orthorexic behaviours.
Because asking questions about peoples' attitudes on an issue will generally prompt a response, the disinterest and ambivalence is hidden, and so it is easy to assume that most people have a latent interest or concern about global warming, when in fact they probably don't.
