Nasser Mehrdadi - Associate Professor Faculty of Environment and Natural Disaster Management-University of Tehran- Tehran Iran
Gholamreza Nabi Bidhendi - Associate Professor Faculty of Environment and Natural Disaster Management-University of Tehran- Tehran Iran
Akbar Baghvand - Assistant Professor Faculty of Natural Disaster Management- University of Tehran- Tehran Iran
Saeed Givehchi - MA of Natural Disaster Management and Ph.D. Candidate in Geography and Urban Planning – University of Tehran- Tehran Iran

Rescue and relief begin after occurrence disaster and continues until the border of reconstruction phase. Assessing the quality of the rescue and relief phase can be done by considering qualitative and quantitative variables. Qualitative variable use to evaluate performance of this phase of managing of disaster .These kinds of variables measured condition without interference of quantities data. Result of using qualitative assessment can present in indexes such as satisfaction of damaged people and acceptability of operation in people which are in damaged zone or in other areas. In this research by definition qualitative Indexes which can be used after an earthquake disaster, assessing the performance of the rescue and relief phases by using these Indexes was done. For receiving the objective of this study a new method was suggested. Step by step method is one method which can be used in assessing the quality performance of disaster management. Result of this research acknowledges that qualitative assessment has permissible consequence and can be done in measuring the rate of efficiency of rescue and relief phase of disaster management.

rescue and relief, step by step method, Assessment, quality