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Course, academic year 2026/2027
   
Introduction to Prevention of Risk Behaviors - B03088 (Adiktologie kombinovaná)
Title: Úvod do prevence rizikového chování
Form of teaching: lecture+practicals
Guaranteed by: Department of Addictology First Faculty of Medicine Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague (11-00611)
Faculty: First Faculty of Medicine
Actual: from 2025
Duration in semesters: 1
Semester: winter
Points: 3
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:4/4, C [HS]
Extent per academic year: 8 [hours]
Capacity: unlimited
Maximum number of enrolled students: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: combined
Explanation: Prof. Mgr. Roman Gabrhelík, Ph.D.
Additional information: http://www.adiktologie.cz
Repeated enrollment: 2 / 1 / 1 / 1
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: prof. Mgr. Roman Gabrhelík, Ph.D.
Attributes: Adiktologie-kombinovaná
Teoretický předmět
Annotation - Czech
Primární prevence v kontextu opatření snižujících poptávku. Charakteristiky primární prevence, její členění a typy. Základní pojmy. Metody a přístupy v primární prevenci. Příklady realizovaných programů. Efektivita primární prevence a způsoby jejího posuzování, evaluace programů atd. Cílové skupiny primární prevence a resortní perspektiva přístupu k primární prevenci. Standardy primární prevence.
Last update: B03072\5069204 (21.07.2026)
Aim of the course - Czech

Cílem předmětu je poskytnutí základního vhledu do problematiky prevence.

Last update: B03072\5069204 (21.07.2026)
Course completion requirements - Czech

Written test in the form of MCQ combination, one correct, YESxNO, matching. Minimum pass rate required for successful completion of the course: 75%. The test be repeated. An oral examination after a failed test is not planned.

The accredited qualification course ends with a final exam.

After meeting all the conditions of the course, a certificate of successful completion will be available, which contains an electronic signature and will be sent electronically after filling in the email address to which the teacher wishes to send the certificate.

Test results, information on the date of the exam and issued certificates will be archived in the system of the 1st Faculty of Medicine, CUNI.

Last update: Gabrhelík Roman, prof. Mgr., Ph.D. (13.01.2026)
Literature - Czech

Povinná:

  • Miovský, Michal, Skácelová, Lenka, Zapletalová, Jana, Novák, Petr, Barták, Miroslav, Bártík, Pavel, Budinská, Martina et al. Prevence rizikového chování ve školství. Praha: Klinika adiktologie 1. LF UK v Praze a VFN v Praze, 2015, 328 s. ISBN 978-80-7422-391-4.
  • Miovský, Michal, Adámková, Tereza, Barták, Miroslav, Čablová, Lenka, Čech, Tomáš, Doležalová, Pavla, Reichelová, Lenka et al. Výkladový slovník základních pojmů školské prevence rizikového chování. Praha: Klinika adiktologie 1. LF UK v Praze a VFN v Praze, 2015, 272 s. ISBN 978-80-7422-391-4.
  • Evropské kurikulum prevence. Praha: Úřad vlády ČR, 2021 [online]. Dostupné z: https://www.drogy-info.cz/publikace/navykove-latky/metodika/evropske-kurikulum-prevence/

Last update: Kolářová Jana (21.07.2026)
Teaching methods - Czech

The education is accessed through the Moodle platform, it consists of 10 e-learning lessons that have 40+ hours of education. Individual lessons follow each other in a logical sequence.

Combination of active and passive engagement (with the following proportion of active/passive involvement 20/40 hours).

The entire course is designed as "blended learning".

Moodle-based course, Moodle platform under 1.LF UK, 

https://mooc.cuni.cz/enrol/index.php?id=60

(or other language mutations)

Main sources of information / acitive engagement:

  • online presentation
  • recorded live lectures
  • short quizzes
  • tasks and exploration
  • compulsory reading
  • supplementary reading materials
  • participation in exercises (face-to-face or possibly also online)

Lessons cover topics: From introductory topics, the importance of epidemiology and prevention science, and evidence-based interventions and policies that are essential to the foundation of all types of prevention, as an element of targeting, why, where, and how.

Despite more widespread awareness of prevention in the family, school prevention. The course also works with the basics of prevention in the workplace, as another type of prevention, moving on to systemic types of prevention such as community prevention and environmental prevention. Also, the course does not neglect the much-discussed area of prevention, namely media-based prevention.

The final lesson focuses on the monitoring and evaluation of preventive activities, as a necessary part of evaluating the quality and effectiveness of the programs provided.

Students should complete the course within one semester.

Last update: Gabrhelík Roman, prof. Mgr., Ph.D. (13.01.2026)
Requisites for virtual mobility

Annotation

The course ‚Introduction to Evidence-based Prevention‘ provides basic information about prevention of substance use and behavioral addictions. It focuses on the importance of prevention, the theoretical backround, terminology, levels of prevention, evaluation, monitoring, quality in prevention and other key issues in prevention. 

 

Language: English

 

Course structure

The Course is divided into 10 lectures:

  • Lecture 1: Introduction
  • Lecture 2: Substances, Epidemiology and Problem Populations
  • Lecture 3: Prevention Science and Evidence-Based Prevention Interventions and Policies
  • Lecture 4: Family-based Prevention Interventions
  • Lecture 5: School-based Prevention
  • Lecture 6: Workplace-based Prevention
  • Lecture 7: Community-Based Prevention Implementation Systems
  • Lecture 8: Environment-Based Prevention
  • Lecture 9: Media-Based Prevention
  • Lecture 10: Monitoring and Evaluation

 

Mode of study: Distant, online (e-learning) course running on the Moodle platform.

The course in English can be accessed via the Moodle link.

 

Enrolment method in the online course via Moodle: self enrolment via internet sign-up

 

Standard length of course: 40 hours (30 hours + 10 of additional activities)

 

ECTS: 3 ECTS

 

Type of evaluation: Final test in the Moodle platfrom must be completed and passed.

 

Additional information about the departnment running the course: 

Department of Addictology

1st Faculty of Medicine

Charles University and General Teaching Hospital

Prague, Czech Republic

Last update: Gabrhelík Roman, prof. Mgr., Ph.D. (21.11.2024)
Syllabus - Czech

Základní témata:

  • Význam prevence
  • Seznámení s důležitými / kritickými tématy v oblasti prevence.
  • Základní definice prevence
  • Role profesionálů v prevenci, kompetence a úkoly preventivního profesionála.
  • Osobní úroveň „preventivních“ kompetencí
  • Transdisciplinární přístup v prevenci
  • Efektivita a kvalita
  • Úrovně prevence

http://www.adiktologie.cz/download/1506/Sylabus-PP.pdf

Last update: B03072\5069204 (21.07.2026)
 
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