Purpose
The aim of this paper is to discover the independent structures of pharmaceutical businesses that influence patients’ health and rights in the literature review. As well as mechanisms of mistreatment.
Methodology
The method of this study is conducting literature review using textual mining with R. LDA as a three-level hierarchical Bayesian model was used in this essay.
Findings
This paper identified nine role players of the supply chain: suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies, consumers, and patients (End user), physicians, insurance companies, governments and IT providers. The primary findings of literature were mechanisms of corruption, education and public awareness, insurance companies’ policies, pharmacies design and governments and relationship among governments. In a much deeper analysis this paper identified three independent root factors that are the major problems of the supply chain, including third party supported by government, governmental regulations and government supervised by the UN.
Originality
This topic is a novel approach to identify the underline problems affecting patients’ health and rights. No study has conducted in-depth analysis on literature review to discover the hidden meaning of the authors.
Paper type: Review Article