TY - JOUR T1 - Usefulness of the working conditions and health survey in central America in prevention. Author response to comments by Jensen JF - Occupational and Environmental Medicine JO - Occup Environ Med SP - 236 LP - 237 DO - 10.1136/oemed-2014-102665 VL - 72 IS - 3 AU - Fernando G Benavides AU - Catharina Wesseling AU - George L Delclos AU - Sarah Felknor AU - Javier Pinilla AU - Fernando Rodrigo Y1 - 2015/03/01 UR - http://oem.bmj.com/content/72/3/236.2.abstract N2 - We appreciate Dr Jensen's comments1 on the Central American Survey on Working Conditions and Health (ECCTS)2 and his concern that our sampling methodology may have produced biased results. The ECCTS has broadly followed the methodological criteria of the European Working Condition Survey (EWCS).3 ,4 Of note is that, to estimate prevalence of exposures to different working conditions, the EWCS is applied every 5 years to a representative sample of only 1000 workers in the majority of European countries. … ER -