The European Burns Association (EBA) serves as a resource to facilitate communication and collaboration between burn care specialists.
An exchange of information between the various burn centres in Europe and verification of burn centres will help us to promote the goal of the EBA.
The European Burns Association (EBA) is a scientific and healthcare society dedicated to the promotion of best practices in burn care, through knowledge sharing and cooperation between healthcare professionals and researchers in that field at the European level and beyond.
According to universal medical ethics principles 1,2, the EBA values human life topmost. It supports providing care to all those who need it, and especially the most vulnerable ones, irrespective of age, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnicity, philosophy, political affiliation, culture, creed or religion, disease or disability, social standing, previous deeds or any other factor 3. All those fulfilling this mission and those in need of their care should be respected and protected, especially during armed conflicts.
Conversely, the EBA expresses its deepest concern and utter condemnation regarding all situations where ill or injured people, their healthcare providers, medical treatment facilities and medical transportation assets are deliberately targeted. It extends its support and solidarity to all healthcare providers exposed to such risk, and its tribute to those dead or injured as a result.
More broadly, under the 1948 WHO definition of health 4 as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”, the EBA similarly condemns all deliberate targeting of civilians or life-essential assets. The EBA strongly states that no war objective can justify such actions as: deliberately targeting. starving, forcibly displacing, arbitrarily detaining or deporting civilian populations, as well as depriving them of care and shelter, whichever group or government performs them.
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European Burn Journal (ISSN 2673-1991) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal on burn care and burn prevention. It is a journal of the European Burns Association (EBA) and is published quarterly online by MDPI.
European Burn Journal is now indexed in Web of Science and has received its first Impact Factor of 1.0! This accomplishment underscores EBJ’s commitment to advancing burn care and prevention through high-quality, open-access publishing. The European Union’s supportive stance on Open Access (OA) further strengthens our mission, recognizing OA’s vital role in promoting efficient and innovative scientific research.
