Countries who already have a mandatory vaccination programme for their children, can give direct evidence of how vaccination programmes can impact public health. One example is Slovenia. For 9 selected diseases, its programme deems them mandatory- including tuberculosis, tetanus and polio in the first three months of life. In addition, failure to obey these mandatory laws conclude in the individual being fined. This has resulted in compliance rates of over 95% (Walkinshaw, 2011). When looking at statistics from outbreaks of certain diseases, it is interesting to see whether there is a link with high compliance rates of vaccines in countries, with the statistics of number of cases of outbreaks. Figures for measles outbreaks show that in countries
