The integration of acute care with preventive and primary care completes a health-care system paradigm that fully encompasses all essential aspects of health care delivery. The predominant conceptual framework divides health problems into communicable diseases, noncommunicable diseases and injuries.
tense - in or of a state of physical or nervous tension. adjective (Informal) tense, wired (slang), anxious, neurotic, uneasy, prickly, edgy, on the defensive, on edge, nervy (Brit. informal) Penny never got uptight about exams. adjective.
n. A person regarded as unsophisticated, gullible, or coarse from having lived in the country: New Yorkers had a horrid way of making people feel like hicks (Louis Auchincloss). adj. Provincial; unsophisticated: a hick town.