. Discussion
GIS in public health, especially vector borne disease, is a young research field in Iran. Malaria is one of the most important parasitic diseases in southern and southeastern of the country, although the country encounters with occasionally outbreaks in borderline with neighboring countries. The goal of national malaria control program is to eliminate the disease by 2025. Malaria distribution and risk maps will help health policy makers to target control interventions at high risk areas and enhance the cost-efficiency of program. It is suggested to prepare database for malaria, demographic data, socio-economic level and access to health facilities of the endemic areas for malaria in the country. This database will help to monitor any changes significantly and manage the elimination program appropriately. Adding temperature, rainfall, relative humidity, altitude, vector distribution, vegetation, surface waters, and other relevant layers to malaria database of each area in GIS will provide clear hot spots. This is important for stratification of the disease and planning control program. The mapping type and the conditions for hot spots selection can be changed depending upon the requirement and malaria situation (Srivastava et al., 2009).