Table of contents
1. Introductory considerations: the secular nature of the State and interactions between religious freedom and the right to health - 2. The Italian health system between the plurality of body and therapeutic models and the bio-technological approach - 3. The irrelevance of the religious roots of the therapeutic choice in existing health protocols and in the legal schemes underlying them - 4. The need to give prominence to the religious factor in the therapeutic relationship - 5. Religion, informed consent, medical responsibility - 6. Tools and strategies for an effective and secular realisation of the right to health.

Abstract
The contribution examines the relevance of the religious factor in determining the patient's therapeutic choices and explores the ways in which the right to religious freedom can be exercised within the Italian health care system.