The current study aims to argue about the importance of the supplementation of the usual performance indicators’ cast with socioeconomic indicators in the management in hospital units. The research took as a methodological base the literature and relatively existent practice to the use of the performance indicators in the healthcare area. It is given a particular emphasis to the attempt to incorporate the socioeconomic analysis.

Such analysis goes beyond the inner dimension of the traditional indicators:

hospital and economic-financial indicators; being added for two other dimensions: first, under the economical vision of cost-benefit and social welfare of the health service. The relation cost/offer of the services (structure indicators) versus benefit/impact caused to the population (output indicators); the second point of view covers the hospital unity analysis inserted in the macro-environment as an instrument of intervention from the government by means of the implementation of the public politics attributed to the hospital’s role in the healthcare complex, its impact in the population’s life quality (socioeconomic and demographic measures) and effective participation in the national healthcare actions (health measures). It brings to a conclusion that the study has brought a conceptual contribution in the management of indicators, once that, the hospital actions are integrated in a healthcare system, thereby, the indicators are supportive instruments to the healthcare public politics and so, a multidimensional analysis allows a more accurate comprehension of the population reality and the implantation of effective actions on the part of the hospital and health managers.(AU)