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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.1d1" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">0869-866X</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2412-2106</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Joint-Stock Company Chicot</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2520</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.32687/0869-866X-2026-34-1-84-87</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Научная статья</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>THE SOCIAL ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF INNER EXIT TOURISM: ANALYSIS OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR OF PATIENTS IN CONDITIONS OF INTER-REGIONAL MOBILITY</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name name-style="western"><surname>Amlaev</surname><given-names>K. R.</given-names></name><email></email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name name-style="western"><surname>Khripunova</surname><given-names>A. A.</given-names></name><email></email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name name-style="western"><surname>Khubieva</surname><given-names>D. M.</given-names></name><email></email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name name-style="western"><surname>Khripunova</surname><given-names>I. G.</given-names></name><email></email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff-1">Bukhara State Medical Institute named after Abu Ali ibn Sino Ministry of Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 200118, Bukhara, Uzbekistan</aff><aff id="aff-2">The Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education “The Stavropol State Medical University” of the Minzdrav of Russia, 355017, Stavropol, Russia</aff><pub-date date-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2026-02-21" publication-format="electronic"><day>21</day><month>02</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>34</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>84</fpage><lpage>87</lpage><history><pub-date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2026-02-21"><day>21</day><month>02</month><year>2026</year></pub-date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright © 2026,</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year></permissions><abstract>The purpose of the study is to explore both social economic and demographic characteristics of patients seeking medical care at the Stavropol Kray Consultative Diagnostic Center from other regions and motivation of their satisfaction, contentment and barriers for inner exit tourism. The survey was carried out covering 297 patients arrived to the Center from other regions of the Russian Federation in 2024. The technique of descriptive statistics and the Pearson χ² criterion were applied. It is established that women made up 62% of respondents. Their average age made up to 31–45 years. The main reasons to address from outside of region of residence were absence of specialists of required profile (32.7%), inefficiency of treatment of younger residents (32.3%) and inaccessibility of modern diagnostic resources (25.6%). The high level of satisfaction with provided medical services was reported by 87.2% of patients. The conclusion. The study results permit to conclude that development of inner exit tourism is related to level of accessibility and quality of medical services and information distribution for population. The recommendations concerning development of system of inter-regional medical mobility are proposed.</abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>inner medical tourism</kwd><kwd>inter-regional mobility</kwd><kwd>consumer behavior</kwd><kwd>quality of medical services</kwd><kwd>diagnostic accessibility</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>внутренний медицинский туризм</kwd><kwd>межрегиональная мобильность</kwd><kwd>потребительское поведение</kwd><kwd>качество медицинских услуг</kwd><kwd>доступность диагностики</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Агаева С. И. Сущность, экономическая роль и виды медицинского туризма. Вестник науки. 2021;2(3):69—72.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Ермаков Б. А. Медицинский туризм как компонент национального проекта «Здравоохранение». 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