The Health of Toronto’s Young Children: The Growing Child This third report in the series, The Health of Toronto’s Young Children: The Growing Child, focuses on the health of Toronto’s children age 1 to 6. It provides a population profile of the City’s young children, information on neighbourhood and family factors and how these factors contribute positively or negatively to their health. [...] The Health of Toronto’s Young Children: Volume 3 – The Growing Child 7 PART I: INTRODUCTION The Health of Toronto’s Young Children: The Growing Child is the third in a series of reports on the health of Toronto’s young children. [...] The second report in the series, The Health of Toronto’s Young Children: The First Year of Life in Toronto, focused on the health of Toronto’s infants from birth to their first birthday. [...] This third report in the series, The Health of Toronto’s Young Children: The This report focuses Growing Child, focuses on the health of Toronto’s children age 1 to 6. Part I on the health of of the report provides background information on the series, explains the Toronto’s children focus of the report, and describes the scope of the report. [...] Although the number and 160,000 children proportion of Toronto children age 1 to 6 has decreased since 1996, similar age 1 to 6 to the rest of the province, Toronto children represent nearly 20% of all lived in Toronto, Ontario children age 1 to 6. The number of young children in Toronto is representing nearly greater than the total populations for each of Prince Edward Island, Nunavut, 20% of all