the impact of the managers’ educational status on the health indexes of the public residential centers

background: the hygienic issues are the essential criteria in the primary site selection, compatibility and maintain of passengers health after use of the services. qom with 17 million annual tourists is the second religious tourism center in iran. the aim of this study was to investigate the impact of the public residential centers internal managers’ educational status on their environmental health indexes in the city of qom. methods: this study is a descriptive research based on arrangement and completing the questionnaire.  the questionnaire was designed by inspiration from the environmental health law approved by the ministry of health. the questionnaire completed by face to face interview and sanitary inspection. findings: there was a direct relationship between the academic degree of the residential managers and the sanitation status (p=0.01) including 21 people under diploma, 13 people diploma, 4 people bachelor, 9 people msc and 2 people post graduated. conclusion: considering the positive effects of the use of educated people as internal managers and technical administrators to the residential facilities, legal arrangements are recommended for residential centers operators pledge to use those with the university degree.