INTEGRATION OF MEDICAL AND EDUCATIONAL TOURISM AS A MECHANISM OF “LIFE TRANSITION”, EDUCATIONAL MOBILITY, AND HUMANITARIAN COOPERATION IN BRICS+ COUNTRIES

Abstract

The aim of the article is to examine the processes of integration between educational and medical tourism in the context of the development of humanitarian cooperation among BRICS+ countries. The methodological framework of the study is based on systemic, integrative, and interdisciplinary approaches, which made it possible to analyze the interaction between educational and medical tourism. The author employs methods of theoretical analysis of scholarly literature, as well as conceptual, structural-functional analysis and graphical modeling. The results of the study contribute to refinement of scholarly understanding of educational tourism as an integrative socio-humanitarian phenomenon capable of interacting with the system of medical tourism within a unified space of international academic mobility and humanitarian cooperation among BRICS+ countries. The findings may be applied in the activities of universities, medical institutions, public authorities, and organizations engaged in the development of educational export. The article presents an organizational and integrative model of interaction between educational and medical tourism within the space of humanitarian cooperation among BRICS+ countries. This model creates new opportunities for collaboration in the field of education, expanding the boundaries of such cooperation and shaping its new content through the conceptualization of the “life transition” process, which systematically transforms an individual’s life activity within the educational environment.