Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of MedicineProblems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine0869-866X2412-2106Joint-Stock Company Chicot148910.32687/0869-866X-2024-32-3-432-437НеопределенThe attitude of foreign students to healthy life-style and confidence to modern medicine as exemplified by students of KurskTyurikovA GAGTyurikov@fa.ruKamenevaT Nkalibri0304@yandex.ruKunilovaK Dkseniyakunilova@yandex.ruTkachenkoP Vpwtkachenko@rambler.ruBelousovaN Isokolowa.nadia@eandex.ruRomashkovaE VRomashkovakat.12@yandex.ruGanaevM Khmagdag160304@gmail.comThe Federal State Educational Budget Institution “The Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation”, 125167, Moscow, RussiaThe Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization “The Dialog-Regions”, 191015, St. Petersburg, RussiaThe Research Institute of Physiology of the Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education “The Kursk State Medical University” of Minzdrav of Russia, 305041, Kursk, RussiaThe Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education “The Kursk State Medical University” of the Minzdrav of Russia, 305041, Kursk, Russia290620243232204202522042025Copyright © 2025,2025<p>The article investigates attitude of foreign students to health and a healthy lifestyle. The main practices of maintenance of health and healthy lifestyle are analyzed. The opinions of foreign students related to their health and their modes of dealing with stress in new social cultural conditions are considered. The results of sociological survey carried out in January 2024 covering students of the Kursk State Medical University foreign students who arrived to receive higher education were chosen as the analysis base. The study established that foreign students more often associate healthy lifestyle with maintenance of mental health, healthy diet and domestic hygiene. At that, considering medicine and physician visits, percentage of respondents attributing these aspects to healthy lifestyle and themselves applying to medical workers is far lower than those giving up bad habits and maintain hygiene. The conclusion is made that it is necessary to increase awareness of foreign students about their rights to receive qualified medical care that will serve as factor increasing confidence in medical institutions and physicians.</p>healthhealthy lifestyletrustmodern medicinemedical institutionphysicianstudentforeign studentздоровьездоровый образ жизнидовериесовременная медицинамедицинские учрежденияврачстудентиностранный студент1.Arslanbekova E. M., Popova N. V. Healthy lifestyle as a value for modern youth. In: Innovative potential of youth: citizenship, professionalism, creativity: Collection of scientific papers of the International Youth Research Conference [Innovatsionnyy potentsial molodezhi: grazhdanstvennost', professionalizm, tvorchestvo: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov Mezhdunarodnoy molodezhnoy nauchno-issledovatel'skoy konferentsii]. Yekaterinburg; 2020. P. 66–71 (in Russian).2.Egorova U. G. Formation of a culture of healthy lifestyle among students during the pandemic. Vestnik Samarskogo universiteta. Istoriya, pedagogika, filologiya = Bulletin of Samara University. History, pedagogy, philology. 2021;(1):62–7 (in Russian).3.Magaramova T. A. The concept of “healthy lifestyle” and its importance for young people. Main aspects and problems. Mezhdunarodnyy nauchnyy zhurnal “Vestnik nauki” = International scientific journal “Bulletin of Science”. 2024;70(1):318–23 (in Russian).4.Marzuk Mustafa A. M., Bogdanova E. N. Legal aspects of providing medical care to foreign students on the territory of the Russian Federation. In: VI International (76 All-Russian) scientific and practical conference “Topical issues of modern medical science and healthcare” [VI Mezhdunarodnaya (76-ya Vserossiyskaya) nauchno-prakticheskaya konferentsiya “Aktual'nyye voprosy sovremennoy meditsinskoy nauki i zdravookhraneniya”]. Available at: https://elib.usma.ru/bitstream/usma/4982/1/USMU_Sbornik_statei_2021_3_052.pdf (accessed 14.01.2024) (in Russian).5.Shumakova Yu. A. Healthy lifestyle. Sistema tsennostey sovremennogo obshchestva = System of values of modern society. 2010;(11):297–301 (in Russian).