Kohli H S
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed). 1986 Aug 9;293(6543):370-2. doi: 10.1136/bmj.293.6543.370.
General practitioners are often asked for medical certificates (housing "lines") by applicants for council housing who claim to have medical problems requiring housing priority. The results of a survey by questionnaire showed that general practitioners in Edinburgh do not know how the housing system works and that they seem to overestimate their patients' chances of obtaining suitable council housing. General practitioners need to know how the housing system works, and communication between general practitioners and housing departments should be improved. A comparison was also made between the number of medical points awarded by a community medicine specialist and a group of general practitioners who had written housing "lines" for their patients. The general practitioners tended to award more points than the specialist. Social priority for housing should be recognised as an independent factor and a new category of top social priority added.
申请政府提供住房的人若声称自己有医疗问题需要优先获得住房，常常会向全科医生索要医疗证明（住房“证明”）。一项问卷调查结果显示，爱丁堡的全科医生并不了解住房系统的运作方式，而且他们似乎高估了患者获得合适政府住房的可能性。全科医生需要了解住房系统的运作方式，并且应改善全科医生与住房部门之间的沟通。此外，还对社区医学专家与为患者开具住房“证明”的一组全科医生所给出的医疗分数进行了比较。全科医生给出的分数往往比专家给出的更多。住房的社会优先级应被视为一个独立因素，并新增一类最高社会优先级。
