La costituzionalità dell’obbligo vaccinale all’interno del difficile equilibrio tra tutele e vincoli nello svolgimento dell’attività lavorativa

[Autom. eng. transl.] The obligation to vaccinate, an issue prior to the covid-19 pandemic. The debate that has arisen as a result of vaccinations to protect the covid-19 virus is part of a historical period already affected by the contradictions on vaccines. The issue of vaccinations and their obligation has returned to the center of attention in recent years following a growing media debate in the wake of slogans used by some political forces to counter, they say, the role of pharmaceutical multinationals. The medical community has long been committed to demonstrating the importance of resorting to certain types of vaccinations, especially for the purpose of large-scale prophylaxis against the spread of epidemics with an inauspicious outcome for the health of the population. The legislator intervened on the matter with the law decree n. 73 of 2017, then converted with the law of 31 July 2017, n. 119. With this, urgent measures were introduced to ensure vaccination prevention throughout the national territory, in order to contain and reduce the risks to the health of the population.2 In that case, the opportunity was given by the need for vaccination coverage for the youngest of school age. In fact, the obligation to administer twelve vaccines has been established, 3 as a requirement for enrollment at school attendance.