Dilemma in Health during Pandemic in OECD Countries: Increasing Health Expenditures for Preventing against the Pandemic Will Cause a Crowding-out in Increasing the Employment in Nursing Service or not?

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In the early of December 2021, the COVID-19 related cases has exceeded 263 million and deaths 5.2 million. With COVID-19, it has been seen that the health system and health personnel are indispensable in the fight against the virus, even during the pandemic period. For a strong a resilient healthcare system need for nurses has emerged as the COVID-19 spreads very fast. According to WHO 19.3 million of the global nursing workforce which is 27.9 million, and 59% of the health professions are professional nurses. In OECD countries, there are 13.4 million nurses, and 987 nurses per 100,000 population. While health expenditures are made for treatment and vaccination, it should not be neglected to train health personnel, especially nurses. Increasing health expenditures against pandemic may mostly go to for preventing, vaccines and medical treatment and cause a crowding-out in increasing the employment in nursing service.