en Epidemiology كاربردي Applicable <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><strong>Background: </strong>Brucellosis is a bacterial infection mostly transmitted by animals to humans; thus, consideration of sanitary instances is an important preventive method for this disease. Therefore, we designed a study in order to reduce the rate of brucellosis in Baneh County, Kurdistan Province, Iran.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><strong>Materials and Methods: </strong>The sources of data were the medical documents of patients diagnosed in health centers and private laboratories during 2011&ndash;2012. Data were analyzed using SPSS software, and chi-square and t-test<span dir="RTL">) </span>P <span dir="RTL">></span> 0.05)<span dir="RTL">.</span> In addition, in the second section of the research, data on all brucellosis patients and experts were used to design an intersectional preventive interventions model for this county.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 135 brucellosis patients were surveyed in this study during 2011-2012, and a total of 80 experts participated in this research. It was found that 43 patients (31.9%) lived in the city and 92 of them (68.1%) lived in a village; and 71 of them (52%) were men and 64 (48%) were women. The most common way of incurring the disease was drinking non-boiled milk [42 (31.11%)]. Moreover, 100% of the patients and 100% of the experts believed that intersectional intervention is the best prevention method for brucellosis.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Considering the results, it can be concluded that the intersectional intervention with unique management is the best way for reducing the incidence and prevalence rate of brucellosisin in Baneh County.</span></p> Epidemiological Study, Brucellosis, Malta Fever, Iran 76 83 http://johe.rums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-126-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 B Dmari bdamari@gmail.com 22400319475328460011653 22400319475328460011653 No Assistant Prof., National Institute for Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Tehran University of Medical Sciences M Ahmadpour moahmadpour@yahoo.com 22400319475328460011654 22400319475328460011654 Yes Faculty Member, Dept. of Public Health, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran. Maragheh University of Medical Sciences J Hallajzadeh jamal.halaj@ yahoo.com 22400319475328460011655 22400319475328460011655 No Assistant Prof., Dept. of Basic Sciences, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran Maragheh University of Medical Sciences SH Hosseini hamid.ho60@yahoo.com 22400319475328460011656 22400319475328460011656 No Faculty member, Vector-borne Diseases Research Center, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran. North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences S Safiri saeidsafiri@yahoo.com 22400319475328460011657 22400319475328460011657 No Road Traffic Injury Research Center, Dept. of Statistics & Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. Tabriz University of Medical Sciences M Ghaderpoori mghaderpoori@sbmu.ac.ir 22400319475328460011658 22400319475328460011658 No Student Research Office, Dept. of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health ,Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Faculty of Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences V Hashemi 22400319475328460011659 22400319475328460011659 No Faculty Member, Dept. of |Basic Sciences, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran. Maragheh University of Medical Sciences