Rapid health needs assessment experience in 11 august 2012 East azerbaijan earthquakes: a qualitative study.INTRODUCTION
 In disasters, health care providers need to find out the essential needs of the affected populations through Rapid Health Needs Assessment (RHNA). 
Rapid Health Needs Assessment
In disasters, health care providers need to find out the essential needs of the affected populations through Rapid Health Needs Assessment (RHNA).  The main purpose of this study was to explore the RHNA challenges.


 2) Lack of RHNA tools  3) Inherent difficulty of RHNA in disaster situations  These challenges result in inapplicable use of RHNA results.


 The most important challenge in this RHNA process was the lack of East Azerbaijan health center preparedness.  Although they were familiar with the importance of RHNA, they did not have any plans for conducting RHNA.
RHNA