[From the introduction to the possibility of moving beyond immunization obligation: considerations on the need for a...

In Italy until sec. XIX, the beginning of vaccination duty allows to obtain some weighty aims in Public Health, like small pox eradication, polio and diphtheria elimination, or like the great reduction of tetanus and hepatitis B incidence. At the some, however, the vaccination duty doesn't allow to develop a "vaccination conscience" to do to accept the vaccines like the most important instrument, for effectiveness and utility, in the infectious diseases prevention. So, if from a side it's necessary to leave the vaccination duty from the another side it's necessary to make e leaded way of health education in the people and it's necessary to make a share of resources and aims in the sanitary world.