en Environmental Health, Sciences, and Engineering Environmental Health, Sciences, and Engineering پژوهشي Original Article <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><strong>Background</strong>: Brucellosis (Malta fever) is a major contagious zoonotic disease, with economic and public health importance.<br> <strong>Methods</strong>: To assess the effect of meteorological (temperature, rainfall, humidity, and wind) and climate parameters on incidence of brucellosis, brucellosis distribution and meteorological zoning maps of Zanjan Province were prepared using Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) and Kriging technique in Arc GIS medium. Zoning maps of mean temperature, rainfall, humidity, and wind were compared to brucellosis distribution maps.</span></span><br> <span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><strong>Results:</strong>Correlation test showed no relationship between the mean number of patients with brucellosis and any of the four meteorological parameters.</span></span><br> <span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><strong>Conclusion: </strong>It seems that in Zanjan province there is no correlation between brucellosis and meteorological parameters.</span></span></p> Brucellosis, Meteorological parameters, Zanjan 149 158 http://jhehp.zums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-40-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Nahideh Mohammadi drkamali@zums.ac.ir 10031947532846009255 10031947532846009255 No Department of Environmental Science, Science Faculty, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran. Koorosh Kamali drkamali@zums.ac.ir 10031947532846009256 10031947532846009256 No Department of Public Health, School of Public Health, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran. Yousefali Abedini abediniy@znu.ac.ir 10031947532846009257 10031947532846009257 Yes Department of Physics, Science Faculty, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran. Mohsen Ahadnejad drkamali@zums.ac.ir 10031947532846009258 10031947532846009258 No Center for Research in Climate Change and Global Warming (CRCC), IASBS, Zanjan, Iran. Mehdi Azari drkamali@zums.ac.ir 10031947532846009259 10031947532846009259 No Department of Urban Planning, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran.