Basic info

First Name

Radek

Last Name

Kovács

User name

Radek

Country

Czechia

Gender

Male

Working languages

English

Bio

About

Radek Kovács is a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague. His research fields, and projects include public health policy and public administration. The project, research and publication activity is focused on the problems such as behavioral economics and its nudge theory, nudging in public administration, health, social and education policy.

Education

2002              graduation from the University of Economics in Prague, Faculty of Business Administration, major in Business Administration and Management, minor in European Economic Integration

2020 – now    Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, commencing of doctoral study in Public and Social Policy, focus on the employment of behavioral economics and its nudge theory in health policy, public policy financing, system and process modeling of public policy concepts

Significant achievements

Publications

KOVÁCS, R. Public Health Policy: Reduction of Obesity and the Risk of Diabetes Mellitus in the Czech Republic. Acta Aerarii Publici. 2021, 18(1), 24-34. ISSN 1336-8818.

KOVÁCS, R. Public Health Policy: Nudge Theory in a Discourse of Behavioural Economics. Studies of Socio-Economics and Humanities [online]. 2021, 14(2), 57-86. ISSN 1804-6800.

KOVÁCS, R., KOTHEROVÁ, Z. & F. OCHRANA. Diabetes Mellitus (un)met care in the Czech Republic in Covid-19 Pandemic (economic data analyses from Czech health insurance companies from 2016 until 2020)

KOVÁCS, R., MUTHOVÁ JAKUŠ N., MERIČKOVÁ MIKUŠOVÁ, B., OCHRANA, F. (2022). Nudging – a tool for influencing patients handling the unused medicines (a comparative study of the Czech Republic and Slovakia)

Korečková, J., Kovács, R., and Ochrana, F. (2023). Using behavioral change methods to encourage Czech HEIs’ students to (successfully) graduate and the acceptance of nudging. Cogent Education, 10(2), 2260714.

Ochrana, F., Korečková, J., and Kovács, R. (2023). How do HEIs’ students accept nudging? Expert perspective analysis. Higher Education, 1-20.

Ochrana, F., and Kovács, R. (2023). Nudging. University of Chicago Press Economics Books.

In publication process:

MUTHOVÁ JAKUŠ N., MERIČKOVÁ MIKUŠOVÁ, B., KOVÁCS, R., OCHRANA, F. (2022). Nudging – a tool for influencing patients handling the unused medicines (the case of the Slovak Republic). The Journal of Hrealth Management, Volume 26, Number 4, 2024

 

Publications forthcoming:

ŠTECHOVÁ, K., KOVÁCS, R., TUHÁČKOVÁ, M., SALÁTOVÁ, M.,MALÁ, Š., PIŤHOVÁ, P., PICHLEROVÁ, D. Promising future effect of Flash Glucose Monitoring full reimbursement – Evaluation of Annual Experience.

KLUNIN, A., KOREČKOVÁ, J., KOVÁCS, R., SLOBODA, M. (2023). Using Behavioral Change Methods to Encourage Slovak HEIs’ Students to (Successfully) Graduate and the Acceptance of Nudging. (A comparative study of the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic).

KOVÁCS, R., OCHRANA, F. (2023). Acceptance of Food Nudges among Type 2 Diabetics in the Czech Republic

ANGELOVSKÁ, O., KOVÁCS, R., OCHRANA, F. (2023). Acceptance of Covid-19 Suppression Measures and Anti-Pandemic Nudges in the Czech Republic

EICHLER, J., OCHRANA, F., KOVÁCS, R. (2023). Social war in France (historical-institutional and processual retrograde analysis)

Proceedings from International Scientific conferences

KOVÁCS, Radek. Healthcare Payment-for-Performance in the Czech Republic from Behavioral Economics and Nudge Theory Perspectives. In: VAŇKOVÁ, Ivana. Proceedings of the 14th International Scientific Conference Public Economics and Administration 2021. 1 vyd. Ostrava: VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, 2021, s. 207-217. ISBN 978-80-248-4580-7. The paper is indexed in the Web of Science database.

 

 

International Conferences  

PPA – International Public Policy Association Barcelona (article on “Healthcare                                      Financial Incentives in the Czech Republic from Behavioral Economics and Nudge Theory Perspectives”), Barcelona, 5. – 9. 7. 2021

Public Economics and Administration (article on “Healthcare Payment-for-Performance in the Czech Republic from Behavioral Economics and Nudge Theory Perspectives”), pořádané Ekonomickou fakultou VŠB – Technická univerzita v Ostravě. Příspěvek je indexován v databázi Web of Science, Veřejná ekonomika a správa 2021

30th NISPAcee Annual Conference 2022, Bucurest (Crises, Vulnerability and Resilience in Public Administration), 2.-4.6.2022 (article on “Application of Behavioral Economics and its Nudge Theory in Health Policy)

International Conference on Education, Business, Humanities and Social Sciences (ICEBHS), (article on “Using Behavioral Change Methods to Encourage Slovak HEIs’ Students to (Successfully) Graduate and the Acceptance of Nudging: A comparative study of the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic”) 25th-26th March 2023 – Sydney, Australia

31st NISPAcee Annual Conference 2023, The Future of Public Administration Enabled through Emerging Technologies (article on “Acceptance of Food Nudges among Diabetics in the Czech Republic in the Conditions of Digital Transformation. Case of a CEE country), May 25-27, 2023, Belgrade, Serbia