title: Health and education: a partnership required for school success.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the association between home environment resources and the school performance of children from a public school in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, enrolled in the fourth year of the second cycle of Elementary School.
  
  
  METHODS
  This is a cross-sectional descriptive study in which 48 children aged between 8 and 12 years old participated. It included 28 boys, 20 girls, and their respective guardians. The children were evaluated in hearing and school performance regarding reading, writing, and arithmetic. In the home environment, the resources that promote proximal processes, activities that indicate stability in family life, parent's practices that promote a family-school connection, the resources that may contribute to the development of academic learning, the child's health, the presence of altered communication, family literacy, and socioeconomic data were assessed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There is a relationship between the home environment resources and the academic performance in reading and writing (for all categories of the Home Environment Resources Scale, HERS). The statistical relationship between performances in arithmetics was found in two of HERS' categories: home environment resources and family-school connection.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The home environment influenced the learning development of the assessed children.
authors.affiliation: Family Health Support Group and Program Health in School, Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Campo Belo, Campo Belo, MG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Samantha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.affiliation: Speech Language Pathology and Audiology Department, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Juliana Nunes
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.affiliation: Escola Municipal Secretário Humberto Almeida, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Maria Aparecida
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Nunes
authors.affiliation: Health Center MG-20, Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Moisés Gonçalves
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.affiliation: Escola Municipal Secretário Humberto Almeida, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Tâmara Simone
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.affiliation: Speech Language Pathology and Audiology Department, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Vanessa de Oliveira
authors.initials: Vde O
authors.lastname: Martins-Reis
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012574:Schools; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014505:Urban Population