A new study published in the journal The Lancet show that premature deaths could be reduced by 40 percent by 2030.

Richard Peto from Oxford University said that it is inevitable to die of old age but death for young people is not.

He stressed that in major countries the risk of premature deaths has been decreasing in the past decades.

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He and his colleagues revealed the children deaths fell worldwide by one-third from the year 2,000 to 2010.

Researchers believe that the reduction in childhood deaths was caused by vaccination of diseases like diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio and measles.

Ole Norheim, one of the researchers, said that to continue this improvement the need for improved healthcare, intensified efforts to control communicable diseases and treatment of non-communicable diseases and injuries are important.

Norheim said that through political commitment and sustainable efforts to improve healthcare the decline of premature deaths can be accelerated.

He theorized that there will be a 40 percent reduction in premature deaths by 2030 in countries not dominated with new epidemics, political disturbances and disasters.

After hearing the study, The Norwegian Ministers of Foreign Affairs and of Health and strongly urged the medical community to develop a common position that enables them to have a unified health solution.

The Pan American Health Organization believes that this study is a significant advancement that is based on rigorous analysis of mortality trends by age and disease category.

The organization lauded the way the researchers focused on premature mortality and avoided complex metrics which would be hard to measure and track on the long run.