Title page -- Scientific Networking and the Global Health Network Supercourse: Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Scientific Networking and the Global Health Network Supercourse -- Disasters: Introduction and State of the Art -- Constructing a NATO Supercourse -- Former Soviet Union (FSU) Supercourse Developments -- The Use of Just-in-Time Knowledge at the Time of Disaster -- The Supercourse Provides Model for a Global Safety System Prevention Network -- Terrorism Preparedness and Evaluation in the United States: Are We Committed to Protecting All Segments of Our Population -- Globalization of Information Sharing and Modern Technology -- Methodologies for Preparedness for Disaster Situations: Examples from NATO Countries -- Disaster Database: A New Experimental Model -- Biosafety and Biosecurity in Georgia -- Safety Issues of Electric Power Production in the Russian Federation: Brief Review and Analysis of Accidents and Emergencies -- Chernobyl Disaster and Experience of Population Protection from Nuclear Accident -- Chernobyl Disaster Update: Networking Examples -- Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation: Environmental Health Issues -- The CRESP Amchitka Expedition: A Model for Multi- and Interdisciplinary Research into Radionuclide Contamination of the Marine Environment -- Respiratory Symptoms Reported by Adults Living in an Air Polluted Area in Jordan -- The 1999 Marmara Earthquake and Afterwards -- Impact of Environmental Factors on Psychic Disorders and Somatic Diseases in Lithuania -- Road Traffic Accidents in Tunisia: A Man-Made Disaster -- Indication of Zinc Deficiency for Lithuanian Population and Its Geomedical Control -- Environmental Risk Assessment -- Examination of Narcotic Drugs and Ethyl Alcohol Among Soldiers in Lithuania -- Public Health Preparedness Case Studies.

An Advanced Seismic Risk Reduction via Multinational Research Cooperation: The European Project RISK-UE -- Emergency Preparedness in the Baltics -- State Fire and Rescue Service: Our View of Scientific Networking and Global Health Supercourse -- Concepts and Terms Used by the Government of Estonia in Health Care Preparedness for Disasters -- Methodology for Eliminating the Consequences of a Disaster in Estonia -- Preparing for Preparedness: Emergency and Disaster Medicine System in Latvia -- Author Index.