This booklet summarizes the main points of the full length publication of the same name. It provides the salient points discussed concerning health sector resources in developing countries. The concept of adult health, as discussed, includes all major health conditions, communicable, noncommunicable, or injuries. It includes the poor, wealthy, urban, rural, employed, unemployed, men and women. The booklet defines adults as those aged between fifteen through fifty-nine years. The booklet summarizes the key findings based on already available data and identifies areas for further research and makes recommendations for action. The recommendations are that governments reduce expenditures on inefficient and inequitable adult health care and free resources for the implementation of cost effective interventions, many of which are preventive.