With 34 donors per million population, Spain has impressed the international transplant community with the world's highest rate of organ donation (double the European average), short waiting lists for transplantation, and reduced reliance on living donation. These data account for WHO's strategy to extend the so-called Spanish Model across the globe, and for the European Parliament's decision to incorporate some of the elements of the Spanish model into its 2010 action plan on organ donation and transplantation.
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