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.
unstable - subject to change; variable; a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty; everything was unstable following the coup. fluid. changeful, changeable - such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change; changeable behavior; changeable moods; changeable prices.