Publications & current research

Writing the pathways into view.

Published work is separated from in-press and current research so that contribution and status remain clear.

01 / Peer-reviewed articles

Published.

Three verified peer-reviewed articles. Use the copy control beside any record to copy its citation.

2025 · Lead author

An integrative review of barriers to actionable intersectionality in cancer research

Yap, C.Y., & Chua, H.K. (2025). Discover Public Health, 22, 752.

Synthesises 77 intersectionality-informed cancer studies and examines why analytical attention to inequality often remains descriptive rather than actionable.

2025 · Co-author

Family function and health self-management ability among older adults from mountainous areas in China

Chen, J.H., Chen, M.F., Zain, N.M., Yap, C.Y., Yusuf, A., & Ying, B.H. (2025). BMC Public Health, 25, 1291.

Uses correlation, regression, mediation, and moderated mediation to examine how family function, self-efficacy, and income relate to health self-management among older adults in mountainous Lishui.

2023 · Lead author

Into IR4.0: Charting the social and occupational changes in industrialised Malaysia

Yap, C.Y., Chua, H.K., & Chin, Y.W. (2023). Kajian Malaysia, 41(2), 81–102.

Charts industrialisation, technological change, work, occupations, education, and skills in Malaysia while setting directions for future social research.

02 / In press

Forthcoming.

Status current to the latest candidate record dated July 2026.

In press

Work Values and Industrialization in Kedah: A Comparative Study of Kedah, Penang, and Great Britain

Yap, C.Y., & Chua, H.K. Southeast Asian Studies.

Extends the industrialisation agenda through comparative work-values research, quantitative measurement, and questions about how social change distributes opportunity and occupational value.

03 / Current research

In development.

Current manuscripts are grouped by research contribution rather than presented as completed publications.

Under review

Patient-Reported Barriers to Diagnostic and Treatment Delays in NPC in Malaysia

Patient experience and diagnostic pathways, with attention to how social and institutional conditions combine across contrasting trajectories.

Under review

From Description to Action: The Intersectional Categorical Influences Framework (ICIF) for Advancing Equity in Cancer Research

Develops a framework for connecting intersectional description with mechanism explanation and possible leverage points.

Revising

From Risks to Diagnosis in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: Mapping Intersectional Mechanisms and Actionable Leverage Points through the ICIF

Applies ICIF to diagnostic pathways and the configurations that produce different consequences.

Collaborative work

Ageing, loneliness, and sustainable elderly care in Asian contexts

Ongoing Malaysia–China collaboration on loneliness, community-dwelling older adults, and comparative ageing-policy questions.

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