[Groups of female workers with lowered adaptation to the working conditions in footwear industry].

The Republican Centre for Occupational Diseases was set in Estonia in 1971. The Centre performs administrative and methodological guidance for the republican clinical institutions in diagnostics, prevention and treatment of occupational diseases. The Centre also runs an out-patient department and a 40-bed in-patient stationary. In the occupational diseases structure, communicable diseases are prevalent (particularly, erysipeloid), followed by occupational hypoacusis, vibration related and allergic diseases.